JULY 26 - MOST of Britain's Olympic sports have today been praised for implementing the performance and governance conditions required to receive additional funding for the Olympics in 2012. Handball and hockey have both received special praise but basketball continues to miss out on nearly £4 million worth of funding.

Weightlifting has received an initial payment but further funding is now conditional on the sport meeting

By Emily GoddardSportAccord has revealed Peru's capital Lima as the host of the 2017 World Combat Games.

boxing, fencing, judo, ju-jitsu, karate, kendo, kickboxing, muaythai, sambo, savate, sumo, taekwondo, weightlifting

By Emily GoddardAn outline of the competition schedule has been released for next year's Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. 

, hockey, judo, rowing, rugby, shooting, swimming, table tennis, tennis, volleyball, water polo and weightlifting

imposed in athletics and cycling (no surprise there), rugby union, rugby league, ice hockey, tennis, weightlifting

By Daniel Etchells at the Marriott Hotel in DohaThe Qatar Olympic Academy (QOA) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the International School Sport Federation (ISF) here tday.

storiesFebruary 2015: Qatar Olympic Academy sign MoUs with Hungarian Olympic Academy and International Weightlifting

By Nick ButlerSiteny Randrianasoloniako has been unanimously re-elected President of the Madagascan Olympic Committee (COM) for a second four-year term, it has been reported locally.

finishing in eighth place.A seven-strong team competed in the sports of athletics, judo, swimming, weightlifting

By Michael PavittTrack cycling will not be part of the Commonwealth Games programme for the first time for nearly a century if Durban's bid to host the event in 2022 is successful.

athletics, badminton, men's boxing, hockey, lawn bowls, netball, men's rugby sevens, squash, swimming and weightlifting

By Duncan Mackay at the Windsor Atlântica Hotel in Rio de JaneiroA special place for athletes to mourn the loss of family and friends will be set up in the Olympic Village at Rio 2016, while a "moment of reflection" will be held during the Closing Ceremony, it has been revealed.

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By Emily GoddardSharlene Nand, secretary of the Fiji Association of Sports and National Olympic Committee Medical Commission, has been awarded the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Women in Sport Achievement Diploma.

The physiotherapist, who is also President of the Fiji Weightlifting Association, received the honour

By Duncan MackayThe American Samoa National Olympic Committee (ASNOC) has received a welcome funding boost which has coincided with it launching a new logo in time for this year's Pacific Games. 

including in basketball, bodybuilding, boxing, golf, rugby, softball, swimming, table tennis, tennis, weightlifting

By Liam MorganThe Organising Committee for the 2015 International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) World

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Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with both the Hungarian Olympic Academy (HOA) and the International Weightlifting

in the Middle East and Asian countries.Doha hosted the 2005 World Weightlifting Championships, bringing

relations between the Qatar Olympic Committee and the International Weightlifting Federation closer

Olympic Committee in 1999 and has enjoyed close relations with the IWF since Qatar hosted the World Weightlifting

Cup in 2000 and the World Weightlifting Championships in 2005."

I am also very impressed with the work that Qatar has done to develop weightlifting, including its very

remotely hard information one way or the other (not yet) on either of these.Handball, table tennis, weightlifting

By Emily GoddardLouis Martin, Great Britain's most successful weightlifter and former British Weight Lifting President, has died at the age of 78.

retirement from competitive action, Martin spent more than 30 years coaching athletes at his Olympic weightlifting

Indeed, he was the biggest personality in British weightlifting and an iconic figure of the sport overall

Ashley Metcalfe added: "It's a very sad day, not just for British Weight Lifting but for the whole weightlifting

By David OwenMore than a quarter of a century after the Seoul Olympic Games, stanozolol, the anabolic steroid that triggered Ben Johnson's positive test, was responsible for more doping cases in 2014 than any other single cause.

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