By Tom DegunJanuary 10 - British Weight Lifting have stated that they fully support the work of UK Anti-Doping following the suspension of top weightlifter Denis Catana who was last week banned for two years after testing positive for anabolic steroids.

January 6 - Weightlifter Denis Catana, who had hoped to compete for Britain at the London 2012 Olympics, has been banned for two years after testing positive for anabolic steroids, it was announced today.

What she has done is give weightlifting, a sport dogged domestically by years of under-achievement and

usual she dug deep, ignored the pain and still went on to win England's first ever women's Commonwealth weightlifting

 medal and become the youngest Commonwealth weightlifting medalist in history."

Zoe has attracted more media attention than weightlifting has enjoyed sine the days of Louis Martin and

By Duncan MackayBritish Sports Internet Writer of the YearDecember 27 - Construction of the £112 million ($172 million) Scottish National Arena will start in February after Bovis Lend Lease was confirmed as main contractor, it has been announced.

dome.The SECC Precinct will host several sports, including gymnastics, judo, netball, wrestling and weightlifting

MackayBritish Sports Internet Writer of the YearDecember 23 - Zoe Smith, the first English woman to win a weightlifting

services such as physiotherapy and nutritional guidance, however.The Londoner has broken more than 300 weightlifting

European Youth Championships in June.In October Smith became the first English woman to win a Commonwealth weightlifting

I am a 16-year-old girl and have to balance the pressures of school and my life away from weightlifting

nbsp;Injuries blow to GB weightlifters' European Junior Championships hopesOctober 2010: Teenage weightlifting

English Volleyball Association Northern Ireland Volleyball Association Scottish Volleyball Association WEIGHTLIFTING

December 20 - An organisation dedicated to promoting sport and helping young people has been selected as a Community Olympic Development Programme (CODP) partner by the United States Olympic Committee (USOC).

people to Olympic and Paralympic sport through clinics and programmes in archery, badminton, gymnastics, weightlifting

December 19 - A young weightlifter finished the year on a high by setting a new British junior record at the Youth Commonwealth Games in Malaysia.

December 13 – Teenage diver Tom Daley, weightlifter Zoe Smith and sprinter Jodie Williams will battle it out for the title of BBC Young Sports Personality of the Year, it was announced today.

bronze medal at the Commonwealth Games landed her in the record books as the youngest ever Commonwealth weightlifting

medallist as well as England's first ever female Commonwealth weightlifting medallist.Sixteen-year-old

November 27 - Three British weightlifters have had to pull out of this weekend's European Junior and Under-23 Championships in Cyprus because of injury.

By Tom DegunOctober 30 - Dubai has been named host city for the 2011 edition of the prestigious International Wheelchair and Amputee (IWAS) World Junior Games next April.

higher with more than 600 participants from at least 40 countries expected to take part in table tennis, weightlifting

October 21 - Volleyball fans will be able to book custom travel and accommodation packages for the London 2012 Olympics thanks to a new partnership deal.

addition to partnering with USAV, Ludus Tours is the official hospitality provider for USA Taekwondo, USA Weightlifting

October 18 - British Weight Lifting has appointed a media consultancy to increase its profile and promote the sport in the run-up to the 2012 Olympics.

Related stories October 2010: Real "tweet" for weightlifting fans as sport joins Twitter generation

By Tom Degun in New Delhi October 13 - The Commonwealth Games have received perhaps their most devastating blow yet with news that women's 20 kilometres walker Rani Yadav has tested positive for banned steroid nandrolone.

Doping has been a recurring problem in India with weightlifting producing the highest number of offenders

To date, he says, Kosovo has two fully-recognised federations - table tennis and weightlifting.