A thorough investigation will be launched by the Chinese Olympic Committee (COC) after three weightlifters were stripped of their Beijing 2008 gold medals for doping.

among the trio stripped of home gold medals ©Getty ImagesChina is now facing a ban from international weightlifting

The COC stance was accompanied by a similar statement from the Chinese Weightlifting Association, who

We all know that weightlifting was already on the programme of the first modern Olympic Games in Athens

The International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) constitution included a paragraph that weightlifting

started to change.Prior to the Congress in 1983, a movement advocating the participation of women in weightlifting

who made it clear that unless the IWF gave recognition to women an independent Women's International Weightlifting

 Tara Nott became the first female Olympic weightlifting champion ©Getty ImagesThe International

Olympic Committee (IOC) decided to include women’s weightlifting as of the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games

Three-time Olympian Tom Goegebuer has been elected President of the Royal Belgian Weightlifting Federation

The 41-year-old, who won the men's 56 kilograms gold medal at the 2009 European Weightlifting Championships

 Myriam Busselot, meanwhile, has been re-elected KBGV general secretary.The Weightlifting Federation

body's first female President in its history.General secretary Nedic Masic has also been re-elected.The Weightlifting

Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina has held its elections ©IWFThe International Weightlifting Federation

Khadzhimurat Akkaev has been provisionally suspended by the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF

(GHRP-2 M2), and Liu also failing for sibutramine.It means China is facing a ban from international weightlifting

Six weightlifters, including three Chinese Olympic gold medallists, are among the athletes to have been disqualified by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) as part of the re-testing of samples stored since Beijing 2008 and London 2012.

(GHRP-2 M2), and Liu also failing for sibutramine.It means China is facing a ban from international weightlifting

sanction those implicated - even though their names had already been announced by the International Weightlifting

receive the men's 94 kilogram gold medal from the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, according to the Polish Weightlifting

Olympic triple jump champion Caterine Ibargüen was named as athlete of the year for 2016 at the Colombian Olympic Committee's (COC) annual Sports Gala.

in the men's light flyweight boxing.Bronze medals were won by Luis Javier Mosquera in the men's 69kg weightlifting

July's Commonwealth Youth Games (CYG) in The Bahamas has been hailed as a major aim for the Fiji Association of Sports and National Olympic Committee (FASANOC) in 2017.

at November's Association of National Olympic Committees Gala Awards dinner in Doha.Fiji claimed two weightlifting

Ken Carr-Braint, the former President of the Canadian Weightlifting Federation, has died at the age of

Carr-Braint also served on the organising committee of several World Championship events and was a weightlifting

Montreal Olympic Games.Prior to his work with the national governing body, Carr-Braint founded the Ontario Weightlifting

founded the Apollo Barbell Club in an empty garage which would go on to become one of the most respected weightlifting

has produced a number of international and national champions.Ken Carr-Braint is a former Canadian Weightlifting

of Fame.Two years ago, the Apollo Club was recognised with a special award presented by the Ontario Weightlifting

Olympic medallist Kelly Sotherton has joined the Board of Directors of British Weightlifting (BWL) in

David Howman, the former director general of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), has called for Russia to be banned from the 2018 Winter Olympic Games in Pyeongchang unless they provide "some sort of acknowledgement" of state-sponsored doping in the country. 

International Paralympic Committee, International Association of Athletics Federations and the International Weightlifting

The sporting year of 2016 appears, in retrospect, like a dramatic struggle between the forces of light and darkness.

sports that we invested in for their Rio potential".These sports were archery, badminton, fencing, weightlifting

Constantino Iglesias has been elected as the new President of the Spanish Weightlifting Federation.

upgraded to London 2012 gold ©Getty ImagesRecognition was also given to Estarlik for his service to weightlifting

Olympic heavyweight weightlifting champion Lasha Talakhadze has been voted as Georgian Athlete of the

 Weightlifting dominated the awards as over 75kg world junior silver medallist Anastasia Hotfrid

was named Female Athlete of the Year.Head coach of the Georgian weightlifting National Team, Giorgi

Fancy Bears', the hacking group behind hundreds of leaked documents relating to anti-doping organisations in recent months, have been named in a United States security services report into cyber bodies linked to the Russian Intelligence Services. 

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