By Tom Degun in St Kitts and NevisNovember 12 - Women's sport has received a major boost after both boxing and rugby sevens were voted onto the Commonwealth Games sports programme as optional sports while the other big winners were the triathlon mixed relay and beach volleyball.

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

suitability for joining talent-development programmes in one of athletics, sprint canoeing, sprint cycling, weightlifting

Sailing Shooting Table Tennis Taekwondo Tennis Triathlon Volleyball Weightlifting

Taekwondo Tennis Triathlon Volleyball Weightlifting

By Tom DegunSeptember 12 - The United States Olympic team trials for weightlifting as well as the 2012

National Weightlifting Championships will be held as part of the Arnold Sports Festival which will take

The bid to host the 2012 US Olympic trials for Weightlifting and the 2012 National Championships was

The Arnold Sports Festival is proud that USA Weightlifting has chosen Columbus and the Arnold Weightlifting

The US Olympic Team Trials for weightlifting will be the most prestigious weightlifting event held in

Columbus since the World Weightlifting Championships in 1970."

Championships and President of the Columbus Weightlifting Club."

Earl's Court is no stranger to hosting Olympic action, as it was the venue for Olympic Boxing, Weightlifting

By Duncan MackayAugust 11 - Disgraced Sri Lankan weightlifter Chinthana Vidanage has been kicked off the Athletes' Commission of Hambantota's bid to host the 2018 Commonwealth Games after he was given a four-year ban for taking drugs.

Vidanage, 29, tested positive for the stimulant methylhexaneamine at the Asian Weightlifting Championship

By Duncan MackayAugust 10 - Hambantota's bid for the 2018 Commonwealth Games has found itself at the centre of another doping controversy after gold medallist Chinthana Vidanage, a member of its Athletes' Commission, was suspended for four years after testing positive for a banned drug.

test until May 13, 2011.Vidanage tested positive for the stimulant methylhexaneamine at the Asian Weightlifting

given the ban by the International Weightlifing Federation.News of it was revealed by Sri Lanka Weightlifting

By Tom DegunJuly 21 – G4S Jordan the leading provider of security solutions in Jordan, have announced their support for the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Powerlifting Qualifying Championship for London 2012 which are currently underway in the country.

in his category of 48 kilogrammes during the Fazza International Championship and the International Weightlifting

By David GoldJuly 21 - Olympic champions joined Queensland Premier Anna Bligh to witness the work being done by a $100,000 donation from the Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) to the Queensland Flood Relief effort.

which hit Brisbane last summer.They were joined by four-time Olympian Tanya Harding and 2008 Beijing weightlifting

By Emily GoddardJuly 19 - The United States Olympic Training Centre (OTC) in Colorado Springs has paid tribute to Lindsey Durlacher, the American Greco-Roman wrestling star who passed away suddenly last month, with both a bench and a tree being dedicated to his honour at the training complex.

bench is located outside the OTC's Sports Centre II building, which houses the wrestling room, the weightlifting

 Jia-Yi-Liu (China)Taekwondo: Prof Won Jae Moon (Korea)Triathlon: Ben Bright (New Zealand)Weightlifting

trying out Rhythmic Gymnastics, Artistic Gymnastics, Javelin, Hockey, Basketball, Shooting, Fencing and Weightlifting

By Emily GoddardJuly 8 - Walter Holland, the former top weightlifting official who devoted decades of

Known by many as Wally, he received his OBE for services to weightlifting - rarely has that honour

been more deserved - and was made a member of the Weightlifting Hall of Fame in 1995.He was British Olympic

administration and diplomacy led to him also being appointed as assistant secretary of the International Weightlifting

International and European weightlifting has lost a great leader."

Our sympathy goes to Wally Holland's family and British Weightlifting."

By Duncan MackayJune 26 - Tickets remain only for football, volleyball and wrestling at London 2012 after another 850,000 tickets were sold in the second round sale, which opened on Friday (June 24), it was announced today.

and 24 sports were in the second round sale, 18 of which were sold out by Friday evening.Boxing and weightlifting