November 17 - The Indian Olympic Association (IOA) are to hold elections for the Indian Weightlifting

  Suresh Kalmadi, the President of the IOA, said: "The Indian Weightlifting Federation

"   The International Weightlifting Federation will decide whether to ban a worldwide ban

Even if India is only banned from international competition for a year, it would rule them out of weightlifting

November 17 - The Indian Olympic Association (IOA) are to hold elections for the Indian Weightlifting

  Suresh Kalmadi, the President of the IOA, said: "The Indian Weightlifting Federation

"   The International Weightlifting Federation will decide whether to ban a worldwide ban

Even if India is only banned from international competition for a year, it would rule them out of weightlifting

November 17 - The Indian Olympic Association (IOA) are to hold elections for the Indian Weightlifting

  Suresh Kalmadi, the President of the IOA, said: "The Indian Weightlifting Federation

"   The International Weightlifting Federation will decide whether to ban a worldwide ban

Even if India is only banned from international competition for a year, it would rule them out of weightlifting

Gill (pictured) has demanded an explanation and a public apology from the country's weightlifting federation

"   He said: "The senior IWF (Indian Weightlifting Federation) officials owe an explanation

  "They should take moral responsibility and do whatever to eliminate doping from weightlifting

  "The Minister told Kalmadi to clear the mess Indian weightlifting finds itself in.

"   The International Weightlifting Federation will meet at the World Championships this

"   The Indian weightlifting team was barred from competing at the 2006 Asian Games in Doha

Gill (pictured) has demanded an explanation and a public apology from the country's weightlifting federation

"   He said: "The senior IWF (Indian Weightlifting Federation) officials owe an explanation

  "They should take moral responsibility and do whatever to eliminate doping from weightlifting

  "The Minister told Kalmadi to clear the mess Indian weightlifting finds itself in.

"   The International Weightlifting Federation will meet at the World Championships this

"   The Indian weightlifting team was barred from competing at the 2006 Asian Games in Doha

Gill (pictured) has demanded an explanation and a public apology from the country's weightlifting federation

"   He said: "The senior IWF (Indian Weightlifting Federation) officials owe an explanation

  "They should take moral responsibility and do whatever to eliminate doping from weightlifting

  "The Minister told Kalmadi to clear the mess Indian weightlifting finds itself in.

"   The International Weightlifting Federation will meet at the World Championships this

"   The Indian weightlifting team was barred from competing at the 2006 Asian Games in Doha

Gill (pictured) has demanded an explanation and a public apology from the country's weightlifting federation

"   He said: "The senior IWF (Indian Weightlifting Federation) officials owe an explanation

  "They should take moral responsibility and do whatever to eliminate doping from weightlifting

  "The Minister told Kalmadi to clear the mess Indian weightlifting finds itself in.

"   The International Weightlifting Federation will meet at the World Championships this

"   The Indian weightlifting team was barred from competing at the 2006 Asian Games in Doha

October 27 - Former weightlifter Alan Ogilvie (pictured), who won three medals at the 1990 Commonwealth Games and represented Britain in two Olympics, is facing another prison sentence after he pleaded guilty to having "cyber sex" with under-age boys over the internet.

a teenager when the Scottish capital hosted the 1986 Commonwealth Games, was banned by the British Weightlifting

October 27 - China wants its men's weightlifting team to be even more successful at the London 2012 Olympics

"   According to the governing body International Weightlifting Federation's rule, one team

  Ma Wenguang, president of the Chinese Weightlifting Association, admitted that China's strength

October 14 - India's weightlifters face the threat of being banned from the 2010 Commonwealth Games in New Delhi after three of its competitors tested positive in the space of 24 hours.

Shailaja Pujari (pictured) and Vicky Bhatta in failing tests that could see the International Weightlifting

  BR Gulati, the secretary of the Indian Weightlifting Federation, admitted that they were

concerned about possible sanctions as weightlifting is one of the country's most successful sports and

August 30 - New Zealand's Commonwealth Games medallist John Bolton (pictured) claims he has been left "maimed" after being infected with what he believes was a "superbug" during a routine shoulder operation at a top private hospital.

story touched the hearts of millions across the world, when he came from nowhere in the +105kg Men's Weightlifting

August 24 - A series of London 2012 themed stamps will be issued over the next three years in a licensing deal with Royal Mail, it was announced today.

October will feature Olympic sports aquatics, athletics, badminton, basketball, canoe slalom, judo and weightlifting

August 21 - Cuba, one of the most successful boxing nations in Olympic history, will refuse to send any female fighters to London 2012, it has announced.

In contrast, wrestling and weightlifting have been open to Cuban women since 2006.

Championships Wladyslawowo, Poland - 11 October 2009 - 18 October 2009   World Weightlifting