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France prepares to host European Open Para Powerlifting Championships

  • Powerlifting News

Souhad Ghazouani will be among home hopes going for gold when the European Open Para Powerlifting Championships begin in Berck-sur-Mer in France tomorrow.

Around 250 athletes from 40 countries are expected to compete in northern France in the Fiolet Weightlifting



Lesotho National Olympic Committee thank Gold Coast 2018 training venue

  • ANOCA

The Lesotho National Olympic Committee (LNOC) has thanked the facility which helped prepare its athletes for last month's Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games.

sent a team of 20 athletes to Gold Coast 2018, where they competed in athletics, boxing, cycling and weightlifting



Malaysia faces two-year ban after three more weightlifting positives

  • Weightlifting

Malaysia faces a two-year ban from weightlifting that would keep it out of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games

positive for stanozolol, Malaysia might have missed the 2022 Commonwealth Games too.The International Weightlifting

or more positives in a calendar year faces a ban of up to four years rather than two.The Malaysian Weightlifting

who was third in the 2015 Commonwealth Youth Games at 56kg.While Malaysia has never won an Olympic weightlifting

and Fazrul’s bronze.The President of the MWF, Dato Ong Poh Eng, is also President of the Commonwealth Weightlifting


Besseberg and Estanguet among high-profile departures from WADA Foundation Board

  • News

Former International Biathlon Union (IBU) President Anders Besseberg and Paris 2024 Organising Committee chairman Tony Estanguet are among the high-profile departures from the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) Foundation Board.

Federations (ASOIF) President Francesco Ricci Bitti is the lead ASOIF representative.International Weightlifting



Major League Baseball star Canó accepts 80-game suspension after failed drugs test

  • Baseball and Softball

Dominican Republic's Robinson Canó has accepted an 80 game suspension from Major League Baseball (MLB) after failing a drugs test for banned diuretic furosemide.

few players to have won a World Series and a World Baseball Classic ©Getty ImagesBulgaria's entire weightlifting

substance, including under-48 kilograms lifter Izabela Dragneva, the first woman to ever win an Olympic weightlifting



Kocijančič claims European Olympic Committees will fight discrimination after Kosovo karate team barred from Serbia

  • EOC

European Olympic Committees (EOC) President Janez Kocijančič has claimed the organisation will not tolerate discrimination of athletes, but will await the results of an International Olympic Committee (IOC) investigation after the Kosovan karate team were prevented from entering Serbia this week.

including those for athletics and football.Spain was recently stripped of the 2018 Junior and Under-23 Weightlifting



European weightlifting President heads to Albania as NOC voices fear of four-year ban

  • Weightlifting

Albania’s Olympic Committee says its national weightlifting federation has “created a system that does

The Albanian National Olympic Committee (KOKSH) has dropped weightlifting from the country's 

Tarragona, Spain next month, and is strongly critical of those who govern the sport at the Albanian Weightlifting

“We want to support weightlifting.

Bello added that they are "fighting against a system created by the Albanian Weightlifting Federation

from their Mediterranean Games team.Bello originally said the weightlifting federation was suspended


Russian weightlifter receives four-year doping ban after methenolone failure

  • Weightlifting

Russian weightlifter Nikolay Panayotidi has received a four-year ban after failing a drugs test for banned anabolic steroid methenolone.

This has been confirmed in a latest list of sanctioned athletes published by the International Weightlifting

suspension backdated until November 24 last year.This means he is ineligible until November 24, 2021.Russian Weightlifting