MAY 17 - TEENAGER Zoe Smith (pictured), voted the British Olympic Association's weightlifter of the year, faces having her preparations for London 2012 ruined by the closure of the gym where she trains.

Besides weightlifting, the gym also has facilities for gymnastics, boxing, aikido and judo, and has rehearsal

Sport Wales, Richard Callicott, from the British Volleyball Federation and Jon Amos, from the British Weightlifting

  MORE THAN 70 countries, including the four Home Countries, are due to take part in the opening ceremony at the Commonwealth Youth Games (CYG) in the Shiv Chhatrapati Sports Complex at Balewadi in Pune tomorrow.

He captained the British  team at the European Youth Weightlifting Championships in 2007 and is the current

  THE Professional Footballers' Association (PFA) are opposing stringent new drug-testing rules that are similar to those imposed on Britain's Olympic athletes.

the same way as individual sports that do have a problem with drugs, such as athletics, cycling and weightlifting

  THE Professional Footballers' Association (PFA) are opposing stringent new drug-testing rules that are similar to those imposed on Britain's Olympic athletes.

the same way as individual sports that do have a problem with drugs, such as athletics, cycling and weightlifting

 AUGUST 18 - CYCLING, Britain's most successful sport in Beijing, is not under threat of being thrown out of the 2012 London Olympics because of its poor record on drugs, the head of the international governing said today.

John Fahey, the chairman of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), had warned last week that cycling and weightlifting

 AUGUST 18 - CYCLING, Britain's most successful sport in Beijing, is not under threat of being thrown out of the 2012 London Olympics because of its poor record on drugs, the head of the international governing said today.

John Fahey, the chairman of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), had warned last week that cycling and weightlifting

  THE medals table at the end of the first day of competition of the Commonwealth Youth Games in Pune had a strange look to it as hosts India led Fiji and Singapore.

The hosts wrapped up their day's proceedings with Shiv Shankar Singh bagging a silver medal in 56kg weightlifting

 ENGLAND may have had to wait a couple of days to win its first medals at the Commonwealth Youth Games in Pune but they made up for lost time today with six gold, one silver and two bronze medals and now lie in second place in the overall medals table behind host nation India.

The schoolgirl from Abbey Wood in London, who has only been weightlifting for two years, led after the

  THAILAND has become the first overseas country to sign up to train in the North West in the build-up to the 2012 London Olympics, insidethegames can exclusively reveal.

Helsinki and has won a total of 21 medals, seven of which have been gold, four in boxing and three in weightlifting

 JUNE 5 - LONDON'S proposed changes to venues in the Olympic Park were today approved by the International Olympic Committee.

will now move into ExCeL London  – already an Olympic venue for boxing, judo, table tennis, taekwondo, weightlifting

 JUNE 21 - EUROPEAN broadcasters are ready to cut down their coverage of sports events if the federations do not offer maximum guarantees in the fight against doping, they have warned.

Telegraph in Sydney reported.ASADA's program has already been implemented in the high-risk sports of weightlifting

 JUNE 23 - WREXHAM, the largest town in North Wales, is planning to launch a bid to host the 2019 Commonwealth Youth Games, it was announced today.

They cover eight sports: athletics, fencing, gymnastics, hockey, tennis, squash, swimming and weightlifting

 JUNE 25 - RUSSIAN gold medal winners at this year's Olympics in Beijing could receive up to $100,000 (£50,830) in bonuses from the Government in Moscow.

on events such as boxing, wrestling, swimming, gymnastics, synchronized swimming, field and track, weightlifting

 AUGUST 29 - TAIWAN has announced plans to spend a billion Taiwense dollars on preparing its athletes for the 2012 Olympics following their disappointing display in Beijing.

They took part in 15 events but won only four bronze medals - two in taekwondo and two in weightlifting