The Bahrain Olympic Committee (BOC) has announced that no more than 2,000 "athletes" will be allowed to take part at its inaugural Baby Games.

freestyle moves contest with football free-kick and free throw basketball contests taking place alongside a weightlifting

World governing bodies representing the Olympic sports of bobsleigh and weightlifting have each vowed

Both the International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation (IBSF) and the International Weightlifting Federation

Commonwealth Games champion and a double world gold medallist tested positive at the 2017 International Weightlifting

on its efforts to combat the doping culture that has blighted the sport.The IOC has effectively put weightlifting

The Oman Olympic Committee (OCC) has announced that it will compete in 10 sports at this year's Asian Games in Jakarta and Palembang.

in Indonesia are athletics, swimming, shooting, football, beach volleyball, tennis, sailing, hockey, weightlifting

The 2018 European Weightlifting Championships will be moved to another country at 10 weeks notice or

The Albanian Weightlifting Federation's President resigned and the entire Executive Board followed him

positive by an Albanian weightlifter.Romela Begaj tested positive for stanozolol at the International Weightlifting

the media in Albania, that everybody resigned," said Hasan Akkus, general secretary of the European Weightlifting

such short notice, though other bidders could feasibly emerge if there is a change of date.Albanian weightlifting

been plunged into crisis ©Getty Images"Obviously it is very difficult, but if we can help European weightlifting

Nigeria plan to send athletes to compete in nine sports at this year's Commonwealth Games in the Gold Coast, it has been revealed. 

Nigeria are set to be represented in athletics, basketbal, boxing, table tennis, weightlifting and wrestling.They

An Albanian weightlifter who became her nation’s first female World Championships gold medallist in any sport in 2014, and won gold again last December, has tested positive for a second time.

coached by a former boxer, is the only athlete to date to have tested positive at the 2017 International Weightlifting

circus performer, won the gold medal in the 63kg snatch – not only a first gold for an Albanian woman in weightlifting

and before news of the positives broke, Begaj had told insidethegames, "Everybody is talking about weightlifting

When insidethegames reported earlier this month that the Bahrain Olympic Committee (BOC) was planning to hold a Baby Games in April featuring competitors aged between two and four, we described the impending event as "quirky".

freestyle moves contest with football free-kick and free throw basketball contests taking place alongside a weightlifting

Mario Martinez, the last American man to win an Olympic weightlifting medal, who was one of the most

person," said his coach Jim Schmitz from his San Francisco home.Phil Andrews, chief executive of USA Weightlifting

When he first started in weightlifting, Martinez lifted at home without any proper equipment, and for

his first four years he never even owned a pair of weightlifting shoes."

his first competition in the spring of 1973 he didn't know what to do," said Schmitz, the former USA Weightlifting

 Mario Martinez, left, with double Olympic weightlifting champion Tommy Kono ©Jim Schmitz"But I

The Oceania National Olympic Committees (ONOC) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to hold Tokyo 2020 training camps in Japanese city Fukuoka.

Tuvalu and Vanuatu.Eight sports are currently planned for the camps, including swimming, athletics, weightlifting

On the first weekend of February, women and girls will compete in an official weightlifting competition

group of Americans helped to open the doors for women more than 30 years ago and the growth of women's weightlifting

"For men only" still applies in some Islamic nations, though none as large or significant in weightlifting

"The first time I saw truly serious women's weightlifting."

At the beginning, some of the women came to weightlifting from other sports, such as track and field,

I realised my dream, which was to get women's weightlifting into the Olympics."

Figure skater Nathan Chen, weightlifter Sarah Robles and ice dancers Maia and Alex Shibutani received accolades from the United States Olympic Committee for their performances in December.

received her women's award after dominating the women's super-heavyweight event at the International Weightlifting

the competition in each of the snatch, clean and jerk and total events, making her the first American weightlifting

at the Beijing 2008 and London 2012 Olympics were considered as one violation by the International Weightlifting

IWF saying that, to their knowledge: “he has complied with the rules and has not participated in any weightlifting

June 2018.”Ilyin is also prevented from competing due to an ongoing one-year suspension of the Kazakh Weightlifting

 "I really want to return to the sport – this is my priority.”Kazakhstan is suspended from weightlifting

England will be taking 18 weightlifting and Para-powerlifting athletes to the Commonwealth Games in Australia

will be competing in her third Commonwealth Games.Smith became the first-ever English woman to win a weightlifting

“I’m really excited to welcome our weightlifting and Para-powerlifting athletes to the team,” she said

and grow from each other in the Games environment on the Gold Coast next April.”Alongside Smith, the weightlifting

The Ugandan Olympic Committee (UOC) and Commonwealth Games Uganda (CGAU) have denied that pregnancy tests will be carried out on female athletes hoping to compete at the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games.

in other sports including swimming, athletics, table tennis, squash, cycling, shooting, badminton, weightlifting