By Gary AndersonDecember 17 - Glasgow 2014 have enlisted the help of Santa Claus to help remind fans that a ticket to the Commonwealth Games would make a great Christmas gift as it seeks to shift the remaining tickets for the 11-day event.

Kelvingrove Lawn Bowls Centre, rugby sevens at Ibrox Stadium, squash at the Scotstoun Sports Campus, weightlifting

By Nick ButlerDecember 11 - Wales' double gold medal winning weightlifter Michaela Breeze will return from retirement and seek to compete at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow next year, the 34-year-old has announced.

Manchester 2002 and Melbourne 2006 Games, and became the first ever British women to compete in an Olympic weightlifting

nbsp;Following her retirement, Breeze was made a Member of the British Empire (MBE) for "Services to Weightlifting

opening the gym last year there was some banter with some of the guys and they entered me in the Welsh Weightlifting

gymnastics, boxing, fencing, judo, wrestling, handball, basketball, volleyball, table tennis, badminton, weightlifting

ButlerNovember 23 - Malaysia's Dato Ong Poh Eng has been appointed President of the Commonwealth Weightlifting

Federation affairs and holding public office.He is also currently vice-president of the International Weightlifting

Federation and President of the Malaysian Weightlifting Federation.A key figure in Penang, he also serves

story at [email protected] Related storiesMay 2013: Aján re-elected International Weightlifting

We don't need a 5,000-seat arena for weightlifting."

By Nick ButlerNovember 20 - The "depraved capitalist system" of the West has damaged the sport of weightlifting

Weightlifting has long been one of North Korea's most successful Olympic sports and they won three gold

still officially at war - after competitors from the latter competed at the Asian Cup and Interclub Weightlifting

that a former unnamed coach on the United States team had said it was impossible to make a living from weightlifting

It was also said that coaches and lifters from Britain and France bemoaned the lack of support for weightlifting

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

By Duncan MackayNovember 20 - Peter Stanley, the man behind the incredible success of triple jumper Jonathan Edwards, and Alexei Evangulov, one of the world's best-known diving coaches, are among the 18 Team Leaders appointed by Commonwealth Games England (CGE) for Glasgow 2014, insidethegames can reveal.

Pickford; Swimming - Dawn Peart; Table Tennis - Jon Pett; Triathlon - James Taylor; Weightlifting

We now know that their weightlifting team would fast for two to three days before a competition.Fasting

AndersonNovember 5 - British Weigh Lifting (BWL) today announced the coaching team that will lead the England weightlifting

Smith.Smith is currently out injured with a back problem and is set to miss the upcoming Commonwealth Weightlifting

Zorba, Rebekah Tiler, Hannah Powell and Jo Calvino.Zoe Smith looks set to be one of Team England's best weightlifting

By Gary AndersonNovember 4 - A total of 92 per cent of tickets available to the general public for next year's Commonwealth Games in Glasgow have been sold with the remaining 76,000 going on sale tomorrow Tuesday at 10am GMT on a first-come, first-served basis, it was announced today. 

the remaining tickets going on sale tomorrow are for badminton, boxing, lawn bowls, rugby sevens and weightlifting

By Duncan MackayOctober 31 - Australian Matthew Curtain, the weightlifting competition manager at London

The 39-year-old Curtain is currently the weightlifting competition manager at Glasgow 2014 and has been

events.These include the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, where he was the competition manager for weightlifting

Australia's delegation at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in New Delhi.While his background is mainly in weightlifting

- he was chief executive of the Australian Weightlifting Federation between 2002 and 2009 - he will

Federation sports director Matthew Curtain (right) pictured with Tamas Ajan, President of the International Weightlifting

By Emily GoddardOctober 31 - Glasgow 2014 is urging the public to "Remember, remember, the fifth of November" as this will be the day when all remaining tickets for next year's Commonwealth Games go on general public sale.

for registered applicants now over, the tickets - available in six sports including rugby sevens and weightlifting

Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games tickets in track and field events, badminton, boxing, hockey, squash and weightlifting

By Duncan MackayOctober 11 - Thousands of remaining tickets for Commonwealth Games events are to go on sale next week to those who missed out on initial applications. 

Seats at the rugby sevens, badminton, hockey, table tennis, squash, bowls and weightlifting competitions

By Duncan Mackay at the Westin Harbour Castle Conference Centre in TorontoOctober 8 - A decision to choose the host city for the 2019 Pan American and Parapan Games is the main item on the agenda at the Pan American Sports Organization (PASO) General Assembly, which is due to start here tomorrow.

the Youth South American Games, the Bolivarian Games and several World Junior Championships including weightlifting