By Gary AndersonThe Bulgarian Olympic Committee (BOC) has signed a new four-year agreement with commercial retail firm Lafka which will see it become an official partner of the National Olympic Committee.

1923 and Bulgarian athletes have won 220 medals at Summer and Winter Olympic Games with wrestling and weightlifting

By Gary AndersonSix national federations in Fiji have until the end of May to register the names of potential athletes they will plan to send to compete at the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games, the Fiji Association of Sports and National Olympic Committee (FASANOC) has announced.

but it is set to send athletes in six sports - athletics, judo, lawn bowls, shooting, swimming and weightlifting

Badminton and weightlifting came away from that representation with a good outcome and of the six remaining

By Nick ButlerBoxing, equestrian, rowing and volleyball, along with floorball and petanque, have been added to the programme for the Singapore 2015 Southeast Asian (SEA) Games to bring the total number of sports being contested to 36. 

confirming afterwards that they had to turn down at least nine other sports.Among the sports to miss out are weightlifting

By Zjan ShirinianApril 16 - British Basketball will not make a formal appeal against the decision by UK Sport to axe its entire funding, signalling an end to its two-month campaign.

European Championships, a spokesman said.UK Sport axed funding for seven sports in February, with only weightlifting

By Emily GoddardApril 11 - The Hellenic Olympic Committee (HOC) has unveiled a 1,500 square metre-dove sculpture made by schoolchildren at its Olympic Education Day that has earned a place in the Guinness Book of Records.

attended the event, along with Giorgos Kaminis, the Mayor of Athens, and a number of Olympians including weightlifting

By Paul Osborne at the Susesi Convention Center in BelekApril 9 - A vision to promote a positive image of Kazakhstan has been launched through the Astana Presidential Professional Sports Club, showcased here today. 

hockey club Barys; and the national wrestling project Kazakhstan Barysy.Ilya Ilyin, double Olympic weightlifting

By Nick Butler at the Susesi Convention Center in BelekApril 9 - Officials from 18 sports have complained to the International Olympic Committee's (IOC) ruling Executive Committee about preparations for Rio 2016, amid strikes by workers and a key meeting on the Games yielding no concrete measures.

which only the International Volleyball Federation, run by Brazilian Ary Graça, and the International Weightlifting

By Duncan Mackay at the Susesi Convention Center in BelekApril 6 - Ron Froehlich will tomorrow end his 22-year reign as President of the International World Games Association (IWGA) when he steps down at the organisation's general annual meeting here, with Spain's International Olympic Committee (IOC) member José Perurena favourite to succeed him.

Games to join the Olympics include badminton, baseball, rugby sevens, softball, taekwondo and women's weightlifting

By Emily GoddardApril 3 - The British city of Hereford is set to welcome some of the world's greatest blind footballers as it prepares to host the International Blind Sports Federation (IBSA) Quad Nations Tournament next month.

Olympic and Paralympic sports, along with basketball, synchronised swimming, water polo, goalball, weightlifting

and wheelchair fencing, to lose its financial support - all appealed but only weightlifting was successful

By Gary AndersonApril 3 - As Australia aims to top the medal table at this year's Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, netball and lawn bowls are the only two sports on the programme to get an "above target" rating following a performance report by the Australian Sports Commission (ASC).

revenue.No sport achieved the top mark of five which equates to "excelling" while judo, motorcycling and weightlifting

By Gary AndersonApril 2 – Indian weightlifter Monika Devi has been included in the country's provisional squad for this year's Commonwealth Games and Asian Games despite missing a drugs test last December.

initially banned from taking part in the Indian National Championships in Nagpur last weekend by the Indian Weightlifting

spot on the core probables list for Glasgow 2014 and the 2014 Asian Games in Incheon.Devi (right) won weightlifting

was set-up by IWLF officials.Previous to that, the IWLF had been banned twice by the International Weightlifting

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By Nick ButlerMarch 3 -  Tonga has announced the identity of three of the four athletes who will represent the Pacific Island nation at the Summer Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing in August.

IOC) had awarded Tonga "universality places" across the four sports of archery, boxing, swimming and weightlifting

By Emily GoddardMarch 27 - Rodney Wilkes, the weightlifter who won Trinidad and Tobago's first ever Olympic medal, has died at the age of 89 after battling against prostate cancer.

courage and determination to battle against the odds defined his years in the competitive arena of weightlifting

can be no greater tribute to Mr Rodney Wilkes than the sustainable revival of the sport of Olympic weightlifting

Russia's Ruslan Albegov and Tatiana Kashirina have been announced as the winners of the 2013 International Weightlifting

in Budapest, Hungary which was attended by IWF President, Dr Tamas Ajan and President of the Russian Weightlifting