Anthony Bartkowski has been selected as the American National Wheelchair Basketball Association (NWBA) executive director.

positions with ESPN, USA Hockey, USA Boxing, Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association, USA Wrestling and USA Weightlifting

Lima's ability to host the 2019 Pan American Games is under threat if they do not meet an "aggressive deadline" of September to begin construction at the Athletes' Village and other key venues.

Committee (COP) amid a series of corruption allegations.COP President Jose Quiñones, an International Weightlifting

The highlight of last week’s International Olympic Committee (IOC) Executive Board press conference in Lausanne was a complicated analogy about two big birds circling somewhere between the sky, a roof and somebody’s hand. In terms of clarity, it was about as helpful as footballer Eric Cantona’s memorable bird-related quote about seagulls, sardines and a trawler when sentenced for kung-fu kicking a spectator in 1995.

Weightlifting are the biggest “loser” after gender equality was ensured not by adding an extra women’

Rowing will lose 24 athletes, sailing and shooting 30, wrestling 56 and weightlifting 64.Unsurprisingly

Bach also made clear that weightlifting had been punished partly for the “massive” doping problems in

cuts, then athletics is a sport with lots of room to do so.There has also been the odd suggestion that weightlifting

World Sailing has described the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Executive Board's decision to reduce its quota of athletes at Tokyo 2020 by 30 as "disappointing".

Weightlifting were the hardest hit, with 64 quotas removed and a men's event cut from the programme.Rowing

Weightlifting must convince the International Olympic Committee (IOC) that they have addressed doping

The International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) has until December 2017 to deliver a satisfactory report

We have sent a strong signal to weightlifting by reducing the quota for athletes for Tokyo 2020."

It was announced earlier today that weightlifting have lost 64 quota places for Tokyo 2020.A reduced

Weightlifting was confirmed as one of the 28 sports on the programme of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.

participating athletes, the first step was to lower the quota of several sports; 196 was approved for weightlifting

Athletics and swimming mixed relay competitions are among those included at Tokyo 2020, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced here today. 

event.Boxing have lost two men's events to make way for two new female ones.It will be up to the International Weightlifting

rather than eight women's teams, will participate.Rowing will lose 24 athletes, sailing 30, shooting 30, weightlifting

BMX freestyle park is set to join 3x3 basketball in being approved here tomorrow as a new discipline on the Olympic programme at Tokyo 2020, insidethegames understands.

25.It is likely, however, that the IOC will approve the ISSF changes for the time being.Boxing and weightlifting

The Korea Weightlifting Federation has appointed a new Executive Board.

Jin-hee bagged the country's only medal, a bronze in the women's 53 kilograms division.South Korean weightlifting

A conspiracy and a tainted dessert have been blamed by senior sports officials in Egypt for a weightlifting

 They were caught by International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) testers.As a result, Egypt have

There is a conspiracy against the Egyptian Federation," Mahmoud Mahjoub, President of the Egyptian Weightlifting

(£192,000/€222,000).Sara Ahmed's Olympic bronze medal at Rio 2016 was a positive story for Egyptian weightlifting

 Egypt had its best Olympic weightlifting results since London 1948 in Rio de Janeiro last year.

the massive doping problem this sport is facing," Bach said.He warned the report was a condition for weightlifting

I was told off last week, as happens from time to time, by somebody from the International Olympic Committee (IOC).

Caught up in the heat of the moment, no doubt, I wrote: "Table tennis following weightlifting in choosing

can you compare somebody who has only assumed a post in 2014 with somebody [re-elected International Weightlifting

parts of the developing world that helped sweep Tamás Aján to a resounding victory in the International Weightlifting

Throughout the Games' history Ghana has won one medal in weightlifting, which puts them dead level with

Weightlifting has become, said Mensah, "the second most talked-about sport after football".It helps that

There's no telling where he would be without weightlifting," said Pierce.

We are a strong weightlifting family and we want to help as many as possible to develop their talent.

It's definitely a shorter route to the top in weightlifting."

New disciplines and events proposed for inclusion on the Olympic programme at Tokyo 2020 will be assessed at next week's International Olympic Committee (IOC) Executive Board meeting, it has been revealed here.

have called an Extraordinary General Assembly for further discussions on June 25 in Munich.Boxing and weightlifting

Several supporters of Antonio Urso have been ousted from the International Weightlifting Federation's

Urso, President of the European Weightlifting Federation, flew home early after allegedly being undone

general secretary, Mohamed Jalood of Iraq, lives in Doha in Qatar, where the headquarters of the Arabic Weightlifting

A new member of the International Weightlifting Federation's (IWF) Executive Board is hoping to use her

in 1998 when women's competitions were introduced to the programme at Sydney 2000.In weightlifting,

 One of her aims on the Executive Board will be to promote weightlifting, which is growing worldwide

 "People want to follow it and we can attract them to follow weightlifting, which helps to attract

Weightlifting is an important part of Crossfit and new IWF Executive Board member Karoliina Lundahl would

 She trains once a week with Niklas, 12, and expects 10-year-old Rasmus to take up weightlifting

Ursula Papandrea has become the first woman ever to sit as a vice-president of the International Weightlifting

of that generation of female lifters whose main goal while competing in the 1990s was to see women's weightlifting

The appointment of Ursula Papandrea as IWF vice-president is another breakthrough for women's weightlifting

©Getty ImagesPapandrea added: "There was 100 years for men's weightlifting to become a fully developed

sport before women's weightlifting came along."

Women's World Championship was under his direction and he has all along promoted and supported women's weightlifting