Jakarta has pulled out of hosting next year's Asian Youth Games to leave the event with no host until 2021.

year.Sports currently expected to appear are archery, badmiton, baskebtall, boxing, football, volleyball and weightlifting

In all the talk, public and private, about the doping crisis in weightlifting, the victims are rarely

This weekend the International Weightlifting Federation’s (IWF) executive will meet in Beijing to discuss

Of those 98, 46 were from weightlifting - nearly half.

It was Anatoli Ciricu of Moldova, a bronze medallist in what has become the dirtiest contest in weightlifting

who was sent home from Rio 2016 for testing positive.The 94kg champion Ilya Ilyin, the poster-boy of weightlifting

the bronze medal ©Getty ImagesWhen all the dust has settled Kazakhstan will have totalled at least 60 weightlifting

Frustration is growing amid some officials within the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) Executive

A meeting was staged at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games by the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF

56kg, 62kg, 69kg, 77kg, 85kg, 94kg, 105kg and over 105kg.As early as 1987, there were official World Weightlifting

Tokyo 2020 chief executive Toshirō Mutō has claimed Japanese organisers are now more committed than ever to deliver the best possible Olympic and Paralympic Games in four years’ time after spending time here in Rio for the 2016 edition.

Yuriko Koike, Governor of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government and President of the Japanese Weightlifting

Paralympic Games it seems there are budget overruns occurring everywhere," said Koike, the Japanese Weightlifting

Sergey Syrtsov has resigned as President of the Russian Weightlifting Federation (RWF) after the nation

informed the national governing body of his decision by letter.He also confirmed that Maxim Agapitov, a weightlifting

himself the subject of controversy earlier this year after he was elected as chairman of the European Weightlifting

re-analysis of Beijing 2008 and London 2012 samples.In a statement released in July, the International Weightlifting

Federation (IWF) said that the "integrity of the weightlifting sport has been seriously damaged on multiple

Some things in sport are relatively easy to predict.

the London 2012 Olympics, Tomasz Zielinski of Poland finished an honourable ninth in the men’s 94kg weightlifting

London 2012 ninth place finisher Tomasz Zielinski is poised to receive bronze in the men’s 94 kilogram weightlifting

The International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) announced that Ciricu produced a positive test for the

2016 after also testing positive for nandrolone.Moldova now appear set to receive a one year ban from weightlifting

impairment in their lower limbs or hips, which would prohibit them from competing in able-bodied (standing) weightlifting

Veteran drugs testing official David Howman believes the International Olympic Committee (IOC) response to the publication of the McLaren Report in July should have led to them being considered for World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) non-compliance.

inconsistent approach in which some IFs took a hard-line approach, notably World Rowing and the International Weightlifting

A special "Review of the Rio 2016 Olympics" has taken place at the Chinese Taipei Olympic Committee (CTOC)-inaugurated 39th Session of the National Olympic Academy.

claimed three medals at last month's Games in Rio.Hsu Shu-ching took gold in the women's under 53kg weightlifting

Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike has reiterated her desire to host a cost effective Olympics and Paralympics in 2020 and has claimed she has 18 months to attempt to reduce the expenses surrounding the Games.

The Japanese Weightlifting Federation President, who became the first female to take up the Governor's

I was hoping there might be a new issue on the agenda to tackle other than Russian doping when returning to work over the weekend following a post-Olympic break. Alas, this proved not to be the case as we were hit by a double whammy of convoluted buck-passing between the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and world governing bodies for two major sports.

of course, the IOC rules gave them the flexibility to adopt far stricter criteria, like rowing and weightlifting

There was nothing to stop them taking a harder line stance regardless of IOC support - as rowing, weightlifting

International Floorball Federation (IFF) President Tomas Eriksson has described next year’s World Games in Wroclaw as an “important step on floorball’s Olympic path”.

Olympic Games.Badminton, beach volleyball, trampolining, rugby sevens, taekwondo, triathlon and women's weightlifting

Leading Australian weightlifting coach and official Paul Coffa has fiercely criticised poor transport

disgrace".Writing in a newsletter sent to insidethegames and the sport's wider community, the Oceania Weightlifting

and ugly" of Rio 2016.The official, who is also secretary general and treasurer of the Commonwealth Weightlifting

did highlight some positive aspects.This included a "spectacular" Opening Ceremony, an "excellent" weightlifting

In weightlifting, in many categories, seating was half-empty."

The sport of weightlifting is at a crossroads," he added in the newsletter."