Eight years after winning the Olympic 56 kilograms weightlifting title on the home soil of Beijing as

before falling on his back, momentarily overcome.World record holder Long Qingquan celebrates 56kg weightlifting

The International Paralympic Committee today confirmed its decision to ban Russian para-athletes from the Rio 2016 Games as IPC President Sir Philip Craven described the anti-doping system in Russia as "broken, corrupted and entirely compromised.”

it up to International Federations to decide if Russians could compete.With only athletics, rowing, weightlifting

Cambodia have succeeded in their efforts to have a women’s 73 kilogram class added to the taekwondo competition at the 2017 South East Asian Games.

cricket, track cycling, futsal, ice hockey, ice skating, karate, lawn green bowling, Muay Thai and men’s weightlifting

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Group E ©Getty ImagesThailand's Sopita Tanasan cannot believe she has won a gold medal in the women's weightlifting

Sopita Tanasan earned Thailand its fourth Olympic medal in women’s weightlifting since it was introduced

days after she had arrived.Hou had the opportunity to become the second youngest woman to win Olympic weightlifting

rival, world record holder Tatiana Kashirina, part of the Russian squad banned by the International Weightlifting

China has topped the weightlifting medal table at every Olympic Games since Sydney 2000.The 21-year-old

challenger, Indonesia’s Sri Wahyuni Agustiani.Sopita Tanasan of Thailand lifts for victory in the 48kg weightlifting

it was more than she can manage.For Vuong Thi Huyen, hoping to claim Vietnam’s first women’s Olympic weightlifting

Russia put their chaotic and controversial Rio 2016 preparations to one side today in the judo as Beslan Mudranov won the Olympic gold medal in the under 60 kilograms category here. 

sense.Beslan Mudranov celebrates Russia's first gold medal of Rio 2016 ©Getty ImagesRussia's athletics and weightlifting

China’s hopes of immediate weightlifting success at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games rest on rising star Hou

141 days on the day of competition, Hou can become the second youngest woman to win Olympic gold in weightlifting

Asian Games champion Margarita Yelisseyeva of Kazakhstan.Vuong can give her country its first women's weightlifting

opting to recover without surgery.Thirteen athletes from 13 countries will contest the first of 15 weightlifting

and 2012, through Wang Mingjuan and Chen Xiexia respectively, and silver in 2004, through Li Zhuo.The weightlifting

Fiji Association of Sports and National Olympic Committee (FASANOC) vice-president Makarita Lenoa has urged the country to back their athletes at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games.

first Olympic medal.Fiji have also qualified athletes in archery, judo, shooting, table tennis and weightlifting

A Russian appeal against its ban from the Rio 2016 weightlifting competiton has been rejected by the

 The weightlifting decision was clear-cut.CAS ruled that International Weightlifting Federational

conduct connected with or associated with doping or anti-doping rule violations, brings the sport of weightlifting

Brazil, more than most, is a country of contrasts. On the one hand, lavish growth and luxury, encapsulated by its Olympic dream; on the other, inequality and poverty experienced by those who have failed to reap the benefits of a system mired with corruption and mismanagement.

 The International Federations for rowing, weightlifting and, arguably, canoeing are the only bodies

Russian swimmer Yulia Efimova could find out tomorrow whether she will be allowed to compete in the Olympic Games here after being barred because of a doping conviction.

for this procedurewill be decided then," CAS said in the statement.CAS also revealed that the Russian Weightlifting

Federation have officially appealed against the International Weightlifting Federation's decision to

New Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike has confirmed she will travel here to attend the Closing Ceremony of Rio 2016 on August 21, where she will receive the Olympic Flag on behalf of the Japanese capital.

expected to be the most important project during Koike's four-year reign.Koike, President of the Japanese Weightlifting

Khabar TV, part of Kazakh satellite television broadcaster Kazakh TV, has signed a late deal to broadcast the Olympic Games, due to start here on Friday (August 5).

broadcast 100 hours of live and recorded coverage, including the Opening and Closing Ceremonies, boxing, weightlifting

when they won a total of 13 medals, including seven gold.Four of gold medals, however, were won in weightlifting

Names of all 98 athletes to have tested positive following targeted re-analysis of drug tests at the 2008 and 2012 Olympic Games in Beijing and London respectively will not be confirmed until after Rio 2016, it was revealed here today.

 Kazakhstan's Beijing and London weightlifting champion Ilya Ilyin and Russia's London 2012 gold

International Federations unclear if cases would be confirmed before Rio 2016.This was particularly so in weightlifting

Belarus, Turkey, Armenia and Kazakhstan should still now be eligible to compete here.International Weightlifting

 Russia and Bulgaria have been banned from weightlifting competition and Azerbaijan lost their two

Japanese Weightlifting Federation President Yuriko Koike has been elected the first female Governor of

chance to build for a new Tokyo beyond 2020”.Yuriko Koike (right) pictured alongside International Weightlifting