the host to four separate arenas in 2012 and stage six sports, boxing, judo, table tennis, taekwondo, weightlifting

Olympic weightlifting is a sport for men and women categorised by weight classes from the huge heavyweights

Weightlifting was first introduced to the Olympic Games in 1896 as a part of track and field; was left

Initially, Olympic weightlifting featured some event criteria that would seem unusual in the current

Major players Weightlifting is highly popular in Eastern Europe and Asia.

Games as a news editor, sports editor, specialist correspondent and, at London 2012, media manager for weightlifting

to work at London 2012 and later became a freelance journalist, in which role he has written about weightlifting

wrote a book about the Commonwealth Games to coincide with the Glasgow 2014 Games, at which he was also weightlifting

the host to four separate arenas in 2012 and stage six sports, boxing, judo, table tennis, taekwondo, weightlifting

the host to four separate arenas in 2012 and stage six sports, boxing, judo, table tennis, taekwondo, weightlifting

the host to four separate arenas in 2012 and stage six sports, boxing, judo, table tennis, taekwondo, weightlifting

the host to four separate arenas in 2012 and stage six sports, boxing, judo, table tennis, taekwondo, weightlifting

the host to four separate arenas in 2012 and stage six sports, boxing, judo, table tennis, taekwondo, weightlifting

August 11 - Loughborough University staff have been getting to grips with Japanese language and culture as part of an initiative to make their overseas guests feel at home in the run-up to the London 2012 Olympics.  

indicated that 15 sports, including athletics, hockey, tennis, triathlon, badminton, basketball and weightlifting

August 11 - Loughborough University staff have been getting to grips with Japanese language and culture as part of an initiative to make their overseas guests feel at home in the run-up to the London 2012 Olympics.  

indicated that 15 sports, including athletics, hockey, tennis, triathlon, badminton, basketball and weightlifting

August 4 - Canada has offered to help Guadalajara organise the 2011 Pan American Games in the hope of boosting its own bid to stage the 2015 event in Toronto.

stage, seven under construction, and four finished.The brand new Aquatics Centre, Hockey Field and Weightlifting

the Olympics in Beijing last year, competing in athletics, judo, shooting, swimming, taekwondo and weightlifting

August 2 - British actress Joanna Lumley (pictured), best known her for her role in the New Avengers, has invited Nepal's Olympic team to stay in her house in Kent before the 2012 London Games.    

the Olympics in Beijing last year, competing in athletics, judo, shooting, swimming, taekwondo and weightlifting

Colombia's Olympic team are set to base themselves on Tyneside in the build-up to the London 2012 Olympics, it has been announced.

American country have won 11 medals, but only one gold when Maria Isabel Urrutia won the women's 75kg weightlifting

68 athletes in Beijing at the last Olympics, competing in 15 sports, winning a silver and bronze in weightlifting

May 27 - India has appointed Hungary's Imre Juga as its new weightlifting coach for next year's Commonwealth

  Weightlifting is one of India's most successful sports but has been hit by a number of doping

out a procedure of dealing with the problem.   Harbhajan Singh, the President of the Indian Weightlifting