Malaysia claimed a memorable gold medal double at their home 2016 Commonwealth Weightlifting Championships

An anti-doping bill which introduces sanctions including prison terms for coaches found guilty of coercing athletes into taking performance enhancing drugs has been passed by the Russian Duma today.

On the other hand, the use of doping in various sports, including in Russia, in such sports as weightlifting

After taking their biggest ever squad of athletes for an Olympic Games to Rio de Janeiro, the Lesotho National Olympic Committee (LNOC) are already putting plans in progress to secure future success.

three coaching courses in three sports.Maged Salama of Austria conducted a basic technical course for weightlifting

candidates successfully passed the course.The three sports to benefit were tennis (pictured), cycling and weightlifting

Last week’s World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) Independent Observers report into drugs testing procedures at Rio 2016 felt like a snapshot of every major story we have written this year.

There was also "little or no" blood testing took place in weightlifting, the most drug-addled sport of

And in the case of weightlifting, whose officials constantly claim to catch more athletes because their

If you want a near-perfect example of how some major sporting governing bodies appear to view image and perception as more important than honesty and clarity, look no further than the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) response to the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) Independent Observers (IO) report from Rio 2016.

no" in-competition blood testing was carried out in many high risk sports and disciplines, including weightlifting

Three Kazakhstan weightlifters have been stripped of their gold medals from the London 2012 Olympics after being among the latest eight athletes to be retrospectively disqualified from the Games.

and Svetlana Podobedova have been stripped of their gold medals from the women’s 63 and 75 kilogram weightlifting

substance oxandrolone.Belarus’ Marina Shkermankova will lose her bronze medal from the women’s 69kg weightlifting

Anna Nurmukhambetova of Kazakhstan.Svetlana Podobedova (centre) has been stripped of her women's 75kg weightlifting

dehydrochlormethyltestosterone.Chinese Taipei’s Hsu Shu-ching now looks set to claim the women’s 53kg weightlifting

Canada could be in line to claim gold after Maneza is stripped of her title, with the International Weightlifting

Alexander Zhukov has reiterated that he wants to remain a member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and that there will be no changes in the leadership of the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) until talks have taken place.

We have started reforms in another sport - weightlifting - which also faced serious problems."

held off the challenge of Russia’s Dimitrii Gretsa to earn the final gold medal of the International Weightlifting

Vallenilla Sanchez won overall and clean and jerk gold in the men's 85kg category as the International Weightlifting

Colombia's Yeison Lopez won three gold medals and broke three world records as the International Weightlifting

clean and jerk today on his way to claiming the men’s 69 kilograms overall crown at the International Weightlifting

China dominated the second day of the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) Youth World Championships

China's Jinhong Zhao dominated the women's 48kg division as the International Weightlifting Federation

Budapest showed off one of the venues it proposes to use for the 2024 Summer Olympics and Paralympics by hosting the World Chess Festival.

Schmitt, an Olympic champion fencer.Other members include Budapest Mayor István Tarlós, International Weightlifting

Pattaya in Thailand has been awarded the hosting rights to the 2019 International Weightlifting Federation

January 1, 2017.Congress delegates received an inclusive report, which is said to praise "the success of weightlifting

" at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games and the "wonderful conditions provided to weightlifting by the Organising

Committee".This comes despite leading Australian weightlifting coach and official Paul Coffa fiercely

and jerk lift.Coaches disrupted the competition by furiously remonstrating with IWF officials.Iranian Weightlifting