The 2019 African Games have officially begun following the Opening Ceremony in the Moroccan capital of Rabat - and the "lighting" of the flame.

and who also has his 56th birthday in two days time.Athletics, rowing, canoeing, karate, swimming, weightlifting

More than 4.5 million website visits were registered during Tokyo 2020's second-chance Olympic ticket lottery for residents of Japan, which closed today.

hockey, modern pentathlon, mountain bike, rowing, rugby sevens, taekwondo, volleyball, water polo, weightlifting

Morocco will end a 40-year absence from the African Games tomorrow with the country hosting the 2019 edition of the competition. 

compete at the African Games in Morocco ©Getty ImagesAthletics, rowing, canoeing, karate, swimming, weightlifting

Championships 3,000 metres steeplechase record holder Beatrice Chepkoech of Kenya, Rio 2016 Olympic weightlifting

A further seven Russian weightlifters, including two who were stripped of Olympic medals for doping, have been provisionally suspended based on evidence in the McLaren Report and data retrieved from the Moscow Laboratory.

The announcement from the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) brings the number of weightlifters

evidentiary packages provided by WADA," WADA added in a statement.It is possible more cases could arise from weightlifting

Last month, Uzbekistan wrestler Artur Taymazov became the 60th athlete retrospectively disqualified from the London 2012 Olympic Games under the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) sample retesting programme.

so far in the London 2012 retests, with rightful recipients belatedly rewarded.The sheer number of weightlifting

The International Weightlifting Federation introduced a rule to deduct Tokyo 2020 quota places from repeat

In a bad week for Russian weightlifting, two new doping suspensions have been announced.

 They will not count towards Russia’s tally of offences on the International Weightlifting Federation

than by the IWF, and will not be eligible to compete again until May 2027.Rinat Kireev, the European Weightlifting

Thailand caused a major surprise by declaring that it wants to compete in the International Weightlifting

Championships nine of Thailand’s team tested positive, including two Olympic champions.The Thai Amateur Weightlifting

September and therefore TAWA's self-suspension and the suspension of Thai athletes from competing in weightlifting

the Olympics, though none of the "clean" Thai lifters is well placed in the rankings.Thailand Amateur Weightlifting

The International Olympic Committee (IOC), which put weightlifting "on probation" for nearly two years

until May because of past doping problems, will have taken note.In May the IOC gave weightlifting the

Five Russian weightlifters have been provisionally suspended by the International Weightlifting Federation

 "We note without any satisfaction that weightlifting was far from the only sport to have been affected

in 2013 and 2014 and claimed European titles in 2012 and 2013.Albegov had been the only male Russian weightlifting

Tokyo 2020's second-chance lottery for residents of Japan hoping to buy Olympic tickets has officially opened today.

hockey, modern pentathlon, mountain bike, rowing, rugby sevens, taekwondo, volleyball, water polo, weightlifting

Last month, the chairman of the Samoa 2019 Pacific Games, Loau Solamalemalo Keneti Sio, described the participation of transgender weightlifter Laurel Hubbard in the over-87 kilograms event, where she won two golds, as "unfair".

obliged to follow rules set out by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the International Weightlifting

event, several of her competitors criticised the decision to allow her to take part, and the Australian Weightlifting

Russia has expressed an interest in staging the 2022 International Basketball Federation (FIBA) Women's World Cup as the country continues its attempt to add to its portfolio of hosting major events following the doping scandal.

to resume awarding events to the country and Russia has since been chosen to host the 2020 European Weightlifting

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Lima 2019Chile enjoyed a fruitful day, with Maria Fernanda Valdes of Chile winning the women's 87kg weightlifting

Fernando Saraiva Reis of Brazil claimed his third Pan American Games title as competition in weightlifting

Venues used for last year's Commonwealth Games generated AUD$62 million (£35 million/$43 million/€38 million) in economic returns in the first six months after they were reopened, Gold Coast City Council has claimed. 

2022.People counters at Gold Coast Sports and Leisure Centre, which hosted badminton, powerlifting, weightlifting

Last week in this space, I was extolling the virtues of boxing when I wrote of my great passion for it as my favourite sport in my 65 years in journalism.

boxing is that it is now up there in the top bracket of drugs use alongside athletics, cycling and weightlifting