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Los Angeles 2028 announces additional venues for 19 Olympic sports

  • Los Angeles 2028

Los Angeles 2028 (LA28), the organisers of the Olympic Games to succeed Paris 2024, have unveiled additional venues for 19 sports, including open water events in Long Beach and the triathlon at Alamitos Beach.

Across the street, the downtown Los Angeles Theatre will host the weightlifting competition.The initial

Angeles Convention Centre, CA  Taekwondo at the Convention Center in downtown Los Angeles, CA  Weightlifting


Pan American training camp to prepare for Paris

  • Pan American Games

Several Olympic, World and Pan-American medallists from the American continent are rigorously preparing for Paris 2024 and will gather in Mulhouse (Alsace, France) from Sunday.

total of 15 disciplines will be represented: Athletics, badminton, boxing, artistic gymnastics, judo, weightlifting

Neisi Dajomes (Ecuador): Olympic weightlifting champion in Tokyo 2020, world champion in 2017, 2018 and

Championships in Budapest 2023 and Pan American Champion in Santiago 2023.Neisi Dajomes (Ecuador) was Olympic weightlifting

Angie Palacios (Ecuador): Pan American champion in weightlifting in Santiago 2023, world champion in

Lisseth Ayovi (Ecuador): Weightlifting silver medallist at Santiago 2023 and bronze medallist at the


Team Belgium will take 165 athletes to Paris 2024

  • Paris 2024

Belgium has presented an itinerary for its Olympic committee, featuring 165 athletes, including 82 women and 83 men, aiming to surprise at the Paris Games. Their best hopes lie in their traditional strengths: cycling, athletics, and field hockey.

badminton, boxing, sprint canoeing, cycling, equestrian, climbing, fencing, golf, artistic gymnastics, weightlifting


Paris 2024: Only 16 Russian athletes to participate in Olympics

  • Paris 2024

A total of just 16 Russians and 17 Belarusians have accepted invitations to compete under a neutral flag at the Paris Olympics, according to the latest count on Tuesday.

Belarusian in cycling, one from each country in trampolining and taekwondo, two Belarusians each in weightlifting


Health experts slam doping-friendly Enhanced Games

  • Other

Athletes at the Paris Olympics later this month will be tested for performance-enhancing drugs, but at a competition plotting to rival the Games, doping will be objective. 

freestyle world record.As well as swimming, the Games also plan to host track and field events, gymnastics, weightlifting


Iranian refugee athlete Yekta Jamali aims to inspire women at Paris 2024

  • Paris 2024

She is one of the two weightlifters and the only female in the team of 36 refugees presented by the International Olympic Committee (IOC), Yekta Jamali, who seeks to inspire women worldwide with her ticket to the Games.

part of the IOC Refugee Olympic Team, selected with the clear goal of competing in the women's 81 kg weightlifting

Her weightlifting career began only six years ago when she started to stand out; however, this was after

frantic training pace by meeting up with friends.The women's 81kg event is the penultimate women's weightlifting


Bahrain Olympic Team receives its megalaunch

  • Olympics

Attended by 40 international journalists at its press launch in the prestigious Wyndham Grand Hotel, Manama, the Bahrain Olympic Committee (BOC) announced the athletes comprising its Olympic Team on 6 July. 

and is amongst the highest ranked teams, with eight competing in athletics, two in swimming, two in weightlifting


China to maintain women's weightlifting dominance at Paris 2024

  • Weightlifting

With 17 Olympic gold medals in women's weightlifting this century, China will enter the Games as the

In women's weightlifting, China will once again be the team to beat.

Brian Oliver of the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) reported.The Chinese athlete Li Wenwen

champions include Norway's Solfrid Koanda, who could become the first Scandinavian woman to win Olympic weightlifting

first female champion for Africa and the Arab world.An example of the potential the USA has gained in weightlifting

The USA are one of the countries that have grown the most in weightlifting in recent years.


Technology paves the way in anti-doping fight

  • Olympics

The International Testing Agency (ITA) is honing its tools for the Paris Olympics and will implement technology and new models to identify and deter potential cheats.

The performance passport project has already been tested in some sports like swimming and weightlifting


Anti-doping system grows leaps and bounds due to data and AI

  • Paris 2024

The director general of the International Testing Agency (ITA), Benjamin Cohen, says that “without data, they cannot stop anything” in the fight against doping practices in Paris 2024.

to a case of doping.The Swiss lawyer thus reports that the project has been tested in swimming and weightlifting


ITA at the helm of Paris 2024… and beyond

  • Olympics

In a complicated ramp-up to the Olympic Games due to political tensions, overspending, security risks, health concerns and the never-ending fight against doping in sports, the IOC-funded International Testing Agency will again be leading the efforts towards guaranteeing a level playing field.

Certain disciplines, such as weightlifting, are targeted more.An athlete will come more under the microscope


Torch Relay Stage 43: History and sport in the Haute-Marne

  • Paris 2024

The Olympic Torch Relay delighted thousands of spectators along its route in the Haute-Marne, a region renowned for its greenery in the heart of Europe. From Denis Diderot in Langres to Charles de Gaulle in Colombey-les-Deux-Églises, it highlighted the history of the region and those who have left their mark on it.

Weightlifting was celebrated with a Team Relay organised by its federation, with 24 enthusiasts.

 Langres hosted a Team Relay, the second organised there by the French Weightlifting Federation,

selected for the French team on several occasions and has been president of the club for over 30 years. 23 weightlifting


Paris 2024: IOC invite 39 Russian, Belarusian athletes to compete as neutrals

  • Olympics

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) on Thursday invited 22 Russian and 17 Belarusian athletes to compete at the Paris Olympics as neutrals even though some have already decided against taking part. A second list of names authorised to compete in the Games showpiece included competitors from tennis, shooting and rowing. 

The first list, which was published on June 15, was limited to four disciplines; wrestling, weightlifting


Paris 2024: Tuvalu sends a solitary athlete to the Olympics

  • Paris 2024

Karalo Maibuca will travel across the globe to compete for Tuvalu in the men's 100 metres at the upcoming Paris Olympic Games. The 25-year-old previously served as the flag-bearer during the Tokyo Games three years ago, a role he will once again undertake in the French capital as the sole representative from his country.

Since then, the nation has sent a total of six athletes to compete in athletics and weightlifting, but


French doping watchdog raises alarm over mixed martial arts

  • GAMMA

Doping in French mixed martial arts has reached "the alert level", the head of the country's Anti-Doping Agency (AFLD) warned on Thursday, AFP reports.

is beginning to bear fruit," said AFLD president Beatrice Bourgeois.Aside from MMA, kickboxing and weightlifting