Angelo Dundee, the fistic guru who helped mould Muhammad Ali into The Greatest was once asked whether the three-times world heavyweight champion had ever used drugs. "No," he replied. "He only ever gets high on himself."

major sports in wrongdoing which embraces drug-taking (athletics, cycling, both rugby codes, football, weightlifting

China won its fourth and fifth titles of the week at the Asian Weightlifting Championships in Manama

and jerk but 1kg short of victory on total.Yang Qiuxia is one of five Chinese champions at the Asian Weightlifting

North Korea has won far more Olympic medals in weightlifting than any other sport but it has not entered

The North Koreans' absence from the entry list for this year's International Weightlifting Federation

Urso, speaking to insidethegames at the Asian Weightlifting Championships in Bahrain, said that a further

special Congress in Bogota on December 4.Urso disagreed with Yousef Al Mana, President of the Asian Weightlifting

strategy and the newly-created Sport Innovation Commission's work, aimed at reforming the image of weightlifting

We need to do that ourselves so that we will start the next Olympic cycle with a completely new weightlifting

Rizki Juniansyah, one of the most exciting young talents in the world of weightlifting, bombed out in

man who was beaten in a controversial head-to-head contest for the leadership of the International Weightlifting

Yousef Al Mana, President of the Asian Weightlifting Federation and an Executive Board member of the

China is 50 per cent of weightlifting more or less," Al Mana said."

Without athletes, coaches, technical officials weightlifting is zero, but they are being forgotten, we

I had two weeks to make a scandal after the elections - then weightlifting might be out of Paris, not

Just imagine he works hard for years and then nothing, he is out because weightlifting is out of the

teenagers from China and Vietnam, the teams at the top of the medals table, on day three of the Asian Weightlifting

Thi Tham finished 93-115-208.Uzbekistan's Adkhamjon Ergashev triumphed in the men's 67kg at the Asian Weightlifting

Rebeka Salsabil Ibrahim, who was a world junior champion and multiple European gold medallist when she competed for Latvia as Rebeka Koha, is hoping to return to the sport she left in 2020.

to competition.She would compete for Qatar, where she now lives, and although the 2022 International Weightlifting

Yes, it’s a challenge having a baby and training but I have been thinking about weightlifting and this

I have kept in touch with weightlifting a little, and I checked the recent results."

weight at which she was trying to qualify for Tokyo before she retired.Qatar won its first Olympic weightlifting

best total since setting a world record eight years ago as she won gold on the second day of the Asian Weightlifting

retest, Chinshanlo, 29, set a 53kg clean and jerk world record of 134kg in winning the International Weightlifting

Uzbekistan's Prime Minister Abdulla Aripov has claimed that Tashkent is becoming a new "world sports capital" at the World Judo Championships Opening Ceremony.

Last year, our capital hosted the World Weightlifting Championships."

The number of sports due to be played in Bendigo during the 2026 Commonwealth Games is up to six, following the addition of new disciplines to the programme, while Flora Hill has been chosen to house the regional hub's Games Village.

basketball and 3x3 wheelchair basketball have been added to the Bendigo sporting programme, although weightlifting

China’s weightlifters had immediate success when they were in action at an international competition for the first time since winning a record seven gold medals at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.

in succession that she failed to make a total.Wang Jiali won the women's 49kg category at the Asian Weightlifting

The final entries for the Asian Weightlifting Championships may include only one of the continent's 11

With the first qualifying event for Paris 2024 - the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) World

away, many of Asia's top athletes have decided against competing in Bahrain, which is hosting a major weightlifting

entry total in their category.Colombian-born Lesman Paredes will be competing of Bahrain at the Asian Weightlifting

Tokyo for the 87kg lifter Ankhtsetseg Munkhjantsan, who would have become Mongolia's first-ever Olympic weightlifting

The International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) has strengthened its commitment to rooting out dopers

of British Weight Lifting, worked on the qualifying system for Tokyo 2020 and was sport manager for weightlifting

but also extends to our Olympic qualification system, reforms on governance and the development of weightlifting

Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) head of athletes development and special projects Tony Tarraf has hailed the introduction of a new approach to evaluate the projects of the continent's National Olympic Committees (NOCs), arguing that it helps to strengthen initiatives and promote good governance.

Central Asian NOCs in Uzbekistan's capital Tashkent from November 3 to 7 this year, with a focus on judo, weightlifting

Russia and Syria have agreed to jointly conduct training and events in 10 sports in an accord signed by the Russian Sports Minister Oleg Matytsin and the President of Syria's General Sports Federation, Feras Mouala.

sports, the Russian state news agency TASS reported.They are looking to develop boxing, judo, karate, weightlifting