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Summer Youth Olympic Games: Day five of competition

  • Nanjing 2014 Summer Youth Olympic Games Live Blogs

Jackson's "Billie Jean" between shots. 20:20 A lot of people are not aware of how important tactics are in weightlifting

third.18:38 Also tonight, the medals action is beginning soon in the mixed team judo, while the second weightlifting

matter, at Nanjing 2014, as Sara Ahmed continues her form in the clean and jerk to win the under 63kg weightlifting

medal amongst a very strong group of international players."16:18 The clean and jerk section of the weightlifting

picture of the ANOC Athletes' Commission15:34 We will move away from the golf for the moment now, and in weightlifting


Summer Youth Olympic Games: Day four of competition

  • Nanjing 2014 Summer Youth Olympic Games Live Blogs

Then in the afternoon we went to see gymnastics, and then weightlifting and swimming at night.

He won a tough match 4-2 against Yuta Muramatsu of Japan earlier...17:37 It is a rest day in weightlifting

coming from rowing, rugby, table tennis and equestrian.There will be a break in medal action in both the weightlifting


Regini-Moran wins all-around gold in latest evidence of Britain's rise to gymnastics dominance

  • Nanjing 2014

By Nick Butler at the Main Media Centre in NanjingGreat Britain's Giarnni Regini-Moran transferred his superb qualification form into this evening's all around final to claim the first artistic gymnastics gold medal here at the Summer Youth Olympic Games.

sabre competition and the boy's foil event was won by Andrzej Rzadowski of Poland.Next door, in the weightlifting


Summer Youth Olympic Games: Day three of competition

  • Nanjing 2014 Summer Youth Olympic Games Live Blogs

Tergat, handing out the men's 100m butterfly medals. 19:05 We're in the closing stages of the men's 69kg weightlifting

Taiwan.Argentina's Sasha Nievas takes the bronze on 178kg.16:00 We're into the closing stages of the weightlifting

inside the International Expo Centre.There will be no adding to the host's double gold from Sunday's weightlifting

There will be weightlifting action this afternoon and then the usual medal rush this evening, with four

There will also be another weightlifting event, as well as the men's all around final in artistic gymnastics


Pool provides golds galore on day two of Nanjing 2014

  • Nanjing 2014

By Paul Osborne at the Nanjing Olympic Sports Centre NatatoriumIt was golds galore in the pool today, with nine champions crowned here on day two of the second Summer Youth Olympic Games.

final judo medal was picked up by Brazil's Layana Colman in the women's under 53kg category.In the weightlifting


Summer Youth Olympic Games: Day two of competition

  • Nanjing 2014 Summer Youth Olympic Games Live Blogs

More medals in swimming, judo, taekwondo, fencing, shooting and weightlifting will be won, with gymnastics

33 It has been drilled into me that "the snatch is for show and the clean and jerk is for dough" in weightlifting

Now only medal action in the swimming, weightlifting and of,course the taekwondo...19:10 Medals are flying

their congratulations following the latest gold medal.  16:35 At the Commonwealth Games we praised weightlifting

Lifesavers. 16:10 Getting to the business end of the weightlifting now and Yorlis Zabala of Venezuela


China win three gold medals on enthralling first day of action at Nanjing 2014

  • Nanjing 2014

Media Centre in Nanjing China have lifted themselves to the top of the pile here in Nanjing with two weightlifting

Jiang Huihua got the ball rolling for the host nation as she dominated the women's 48 kilogram weightlifting

bronze.Jiang Huihua put in a fine display to win China's first gold medal of Nanjing 2014 in the women's 48kg weightlifting

competition ©Getty ImagesCheng Meng sealed the golden double for China in the weightlifting after blowing


Caviar vol-au-vents were not on the menu, but 10 years on, the Athens 2004 legacy is a lot more positive than organisers are generally given credit for

  • The Big Read

By David OwenA world-weary sigh invaded the cafeteria. An Olympic media veteran was contemplating another slab-like cheese (or was it spinach?) pie. "In Moscow they gave us caviar vol-au-vents," he groaned with Chekhovian whimsy.The Athens 2004 Olympic and Paralympic Games did not get everything right. But given the unseemly rush to be ready, and persistent doubts over whether an economy the size of Greece could truly cope with the monstrous scale of a 21st century Olympics, they were an unmitigated, enchanting triumph.Britain went briefly badminton-potty; the footballers of Iraq inspired their war-weary nation by winning through to the semi-finals precisely...

of sports facilities, these facilities would still be useless: we don't need a 5,000-seat arena for weightlifting

So changed uses for many of the sporting venues were required and, in the cases of both the weightlifting


Summer Youth Olympic Games: Day one of competition

  • Nanjing 2014 Summer Youth Olympic Games Live Blogs

In the weightlifting that is anyway as China's Cheng Meng takes gold in the men's 56kg event.His dominant

"After a quick dash around the corner I've made my way to Hall F where the men's 56kg weightlifting final

The men's under 56kg weightlifting competition is also beginning.

As well as a chance to bring you some live fencing, weightlifting and taekwondo coverage, it will also

Woop woop- The IWF getting slightly excited as the weightlifting finals get underway.15:15 We've got



Ebola crisis forces Nigeria and Sierra Leone out of Nanjing 2014

  • Nanjing 2014

By Duncan MackayNigeria and Sierra Leone have both withdrawn from the Summer Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing because of the outbreak of Ebola in West Africa. 

Sierra Leone had also been due to compete in swimming and weightlifting


Nigeria Olympic Committee turn to navy to boost "One Service, One Medal" project

  • ANOCA

By Nick ButlerNigeria's aim to work with the armed forces in order to improve their sporting fortunes on the road to Rio 2016 has received another boost after a pledge of support from the chief of Naval Staff, vice-admiral Usman Jubril.

, where Nigeria finished eighth of the medals table with 36 medals, including 11 gold in athletics, weightlifting


Brian Oliver: Forget the scandals, weightlifting is actually a brilliant sport that deserves more publicity

  • Inside the Blogs

"The future of weightlifting as a core sport in the Commonwealth Games programme has again been thrown

It will take a great deal more than that to knock weightlifting out of its place as one of the most important

Of all 17 sports at Glasgow 2014, weightlifting was the most diverse.

He had never seen weightlifting before."It was absolutely incredible," he said.

Not the sort of stories weightlifting would want.The International Weightlifting Federation - who were


Papua New Guinea weightlifter cleared of sexual assault

  • Glasgow 2014

By Paul OsbornePapua New Guinean weightlifter Toua Udia has been cleared of sexually assaulting a man in a Tesco toilet prior to the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.

Despite the allegations against him, Udia was still able to compete in the men's 77 kilogram weightlifting

Udia was part of the Papua New Guinea squad that won two gold medals at Glasgow 2014, both of which in weightlifting


Commonwealth Games: Wrap-up and farewell

  • Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games Live Blogs

at Glasgow 201413:55 Sisters Mary and Ele Opeloge each won silver medals in the two heaviest female weightlifting

Kiribati's first ever Commonwealth Games medal, a gold, in the weightlifting, is still leading the way