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

May 4 - Loughborough University will today sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Japan that will see both organisations working together until the London 2012 Olympic Games, as first reported on insidethegames.

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

April 29 - The British Olympic Association (BOA) has been living through challenging financial times.

funding shortfall: fencing, handball, shooting, table tennis, volleyball/beach volleyball, water polo, weightlifting

April 17 - Boxing is resisting a possible switch of venue at the 2012 Olympics from Excel to Wembley Arena, claiming that competitors will suffer from the move.  

about 15 minutes journey from the Olympic Village, sharing facilities with fencing, judo, table tennis, weightlifting

  SOUTH AFRICA'S preparations for the London 2012 Olympics received a massive boost today with the announcement that they are to share in a R400 million (£27.5 million) Lottery grant, it was announced today.

initial focus sports identified are athletics, swimming, wrestling, judo, cycling, canoeing, shooting, weightlifting

 FEBRUARY 4 - MARCUS STEPHEN (pictured), Nauru's most successful sportsman who last year became the country's President, is to oversee its National Olympic Committee.

In 1989 the Nauru Weightlifting Federation had also been set-up so that Stephen could represent the world's

In 2005 Stephen was voted into the International Weightlifting Federation's Hall of Fame.  

Stephen is also the president of the Oceania Weightlifting Federation, the Pacific region's official

continental weightlifting body.

Olympic sports face a cut from the previous funding cycle; highest cut to lowest: shooting, wrestling, weightlifting

  By Karim Bashir - 22 January 2009   The dust has settled since UK Sport announced the funding allocation for the Olympic and Paralympic sports that hadn’t been told what funding they were getting for the London cycle last year. 

Olympic sports face a cut from the previous funding cycle; highest cut to lowest: shooting, wrestling, weightlifting

  GLASGOW today said that they will launch an attempt next week to try to attract Jamaica, including Usain Bolt (pictured), to train in the Scottish city before the London Olympics.

offering facilities for football, athletics, badminton, gymnastics, boxing, judo, taekwondo, wrestling, weightlifting

  SEPTEMBER 21 - WORLD ANTI-DOPING AGENCY (WADA) chairman John Fahey (pictured) has praised the pre-Olympic drug testing programmes that prevented a number of drug cheats from competing in Beijing.

"It was 11 in Russia , almost the entire Greek weightlifting team, and so on and so forth.  

 SEPTEMBER 7 - THERE needs to be better planning for London 2012 after Nigeria suffered its worst Olympics for 20 years in Beijing, a top sports official there said today.

”Look at weightlifting, the average Nigerian lifter has the strength and size to do well but lacks

  SEPTEMBER 1 - THE dozen plus Greek athletes who tested positive in the run-up to the Olympics were deliberately trying to outsmart the doping authorities, a leading expert claimed today.

In all, 15 Greek athletes in three disciplines - weightlifting, swimming and athletics - have tested

    JULY 15 - BRITAIN'S sole representative in the weightlifting at the Beijing Olympics

invitational place after backlog in processing pre-Games drug testing samples meant the International Weightlifting

 face a stiff test against home favourite Qiu Hongmei.   Fiona Lothian, the World Class Weightlifting

performance manager, said: “It’s absolutely great for British Weightlifting to have an Olympic place

will benefit from this.     "She is an inspiration to the youngsters in the World Class Weightlifting

    JULY 15 - BRITAIN'S sole representative in the weightlifting at the Beijing Olympics

invitational place after backlog in processing pre-Games drug testing samples meant the International Weightlifting

 face a stiff test against home favourite Qiu Hongmei.   Fiona Lothian, the World Class Weightlifting

performance manager, said: “It’s absolutely great for British Weightlifting to have an Olympic place

will benefit from this.     "She is an inspiration to the youngsters in the World Class Weightlifting

  A GROUP of potential Olympians are to be chosen this month by the Philippines to prepare for the London 2012 Games as the country continues to seek its first gold medal.

Archery, boxing, equestrian, gymnastics, shooting swimming, taekwondo and weightlifting are all expected