By Duncan MackayA planned memorial to commemorate the 11 Israeli athletes and officials killed by Palestinian terrorists during the 1972 Olympics in Munich is to receive a $250,000 (£150,000/€184,000) contribution from the International Olympic Committee (IOC), it has been reported.

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AndersonDouble Commonwealth Games gold medallist Michaela Breeze has been named as part of a seven-strong Wales weightlifting

the sport.However, the 35-year-old, who became the first ever British women to compete in an Olympic weightlifting

competition at Athens 2004, returned to competitive action last year and will once again lead the Welsh weightlifting

at Glasgow 2014 ©Getty Images"Weightlifting holds a rich history for Wales at the Commonwealth Games

Weightlifting has provided Wales with its most successful ever athlete at a Commonwealth Games in the

medals since the sport first appeared on the Commonwealth Games programme in Auckland in 1950.The weightlifting

By Zjan ShirinianQualification for the weightlifting competition at the Nanjing 2014 Youth Olympic Games

The end of the 94 kilogram competition today at the Youth Oceania Weightlifting Championships in Mont

Caledonia signals an end to the more than year-long qualification period.It began with the International Weightlifting

youth Olympic Games, following on from Singapore in 2010, is due to take place from August 16 to 28.Weightlifting

By Gary AndersonBritish Weight Lifting (BWL) has announced a partnership agreement with strength and power training equipment supplier Elite Sport Performance Technologies (ESP).

The partnership was debuted at the recent British Senior Weightlifting and Para-Powerlifting Championships

By Paul OsborneEmpty seats across venues at the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games could become a reality, with nine sports, and the Opening and Closing Ceremonies, showing "high availability" for tickets.

purchase.Many sessions across badminton, boxing, bowls, powerlifting, rugby sevens, squash, table tennis, weightlifting

By Gary AndersonOceania champion Tayla Ford is the leading medal contender and only woman in the six-strong New Zealand wrestling team named for the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games.

I have increased the number of wrestling trainings I do and I've started weightlifting."

By Duncan MackayNorth Korea today officially announced it will take part in this year's Asian Games in Incheon, in neighbouring South Korea.

extended an invitation to South Korean weightlifters to compete at the 2013 Asian Cup and Interclub Weightlifting

soil for the first time.North Korea's Kim Kum Sok celebrates his Asian Games gold medal in the men's weightlifting

They won the bulk of their medals in weightlifting, shooting and wrestling, events they are again expected

ChampionshipsSeptember 2013: North Korea allows South Korean athletes to march alongside national flag at weightlifting

By Gary AndersonThe second African Youth Games are set to get underway in Gaborone, Botswana, tomorrow as the city prepares to welcome around 2,500 athletes from 54 countries for 10 days of competition.

continent's best young tennis talent take to the courts, while the Boipuso Hall will stage karate and weightlifting

By Nick ButlerTickets for hockey, netball and rugby sevens, as well as for the Opening and Closing Ceremonies, are up for grabs as the Glasgow 2014 ticket-selling process resumed today after nine days of delays. 

tickets will then go on sale at 10am on Friday (May 23), including those for the remaining sports of weightlifting

By Paul OsborneSports Federations for athletics, weightlifting and bodybuilding, swimming golf and fencing

By Paul Osborne"Unashamedly ambitious" targets have today been unveiled by Wales as it looks ahead to the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.

shooting, disability sport and bowls have each been set a target of two medals with triathlon, judo and weightlifting

weight in gold, the colour of the medal she dreams of winning as the first Briton to win an Olympic weightlifting

Weightlifting doesn't turn people into hulks - it's a totally different sport to body-building."

Metcalfe, the former Yorkshire and England cricketer who became chief executive of Leeds-based British Weightlifting

Astonishing," is how her coach Eddie Halstead describes the power of Britain's new weightlifting wonder

tested at a performance centre in Rochdale that a coach told me, 'You're so strong you should take up weightlifting

By Nick ButlerSpecific details on the three phases of ticket sales due to begin on Wednesday (May 21) have been announced by Glasgow 2014 today, as they bid to avoid the problems which caused the suspension of sales last week.

remaining tickets becoming available at the same time the following day.These will consist tickets for weightlifting

By Emily GoddardThe Hellenic Olympic Academy has hosted the 13th edition of its educational programme "Fair Play" at the Karaiskakis Stadium in Piraeus.

world medallists, and allowed them to take part in archery, athletics, rhythmic gymnastics, football, weightlifting

Vassiliki Vougiouka, Sydney 2000 rhythmic gymnastics bronze medallist Eirini Aindili and Atlanta 1996 weightlifting

attending the event could take part in the sports of archery, athletics, rhythmic gymnastics, football, weightlifting

By Paul Osborne at the London Aquatics Centre in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic ParkMultinational infrastructure company Balfour Beatty has extended its title sponsorship with the London Youth Games in a deal set to run until 2016.

the partnership extension, Olympic judo silver medallist Gemma Gibbons and Commonwealth and European weightlifting

Olympic judo medallist Gemma Gibbons and European and Commonwealth weightlifting medallist Zoe Smith