Sri Lanka's Chef de Mission for the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games has admitted preparations have been impacted to a "great extent" by the "turmoil situation" in the country.

badminton, beach volleyball, boxing, cricket, gymnastics, judo, rugby sevens, squash, table tennis, weightlifting

To say that Sri Lanka's preparations for the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games have been rocky is something of an understatement. 

badminton, beach volleyball, boxing, cricket, gymnastics, judo, rugby sevens, squash, table tennis, weightlifting

country's largest haul at a single Commonwealth Games.All of the podium finishes came in either boxing or weightlifting

Commonwealth silver medallist Indika Dissanayake will be part of a strong weightlifting team ©Getty ImagesSri

Seven weeks after its athletes topped the medals table at the European Championships, the Bulgarian Weightlifting

dispute by stopping its support for the BFVT.A new federation will be created by the man who won the last weightlifting

Arif Majed.The Sports Ministry’s decision looks like good news for the athletes, as the International Weightlifting

send a team to the Junior World Championships.Arif Majed, third from right, is set to create a new weightlifting

should have hosted the continental championships this year but because of the dispute the European Weightlifting

We have to change the image of Bulgarian weightlifting."

Vanuatu has named its team for the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham as it bids to build on its historic performance four years ago.

The Pacific nation are set to compete in athletics, beach volleyball, boxing, judo, table tennis and weightlifting

Reanna Solomon, a mother of five from Nauru who competed at the Olympic Games and remains her country’s only female gold medallist in any sport at the Commonwealth Games, has died from COVID-19 at the age of 40.

Coffa, the former national coach of Nauru’s weightlifters who is general secretary of the Commonwealth Weightlifting

Reanna was a superb athlete, naturally strong, who started competing in weightlifting in the 1990s."

Nauru's Reanna Solomon retired from weightlifting after competing at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens

Federation and a Board member of the International Weightlifting Federation said, "This is a very sad

Federations we extend our deepest sympathies to her family and our condolences also to the Nauru Weightlifting

Vanuatu hadn't won a single Commonwealth Games medal when they travelled to Gold Coast 2018, but they left the Australian city with two. 

maybe for the future," King added.Vanuatu will also be competing in boxing, judo, table tennis and weightlifting

Olympic medallists were among weightlifters from seven countries who competed at - but not in - the USA National Championships in Las Vegas.

In a landmark event on the weightlifting calendar, the inaugural USA Weightlifting (USAW) Friendship

Papandrea, USAW's general secretary who was recently elected first vice-president of the International Weightlifting

an IWF-sanctioned event but mixed gender competitions and new formats have been discussed within the weightlifting

was devised by Ursula Papandrea, USAW general secretary and first vice-president of the International Weightlifting

a rare appearance on the platform by Samir, who became the first woman from the Arab world to win a weightlifting

A ride on a zip wire at the Eden Project in Cornwall began the first day of the Queen’s Baton Relay in England and another journey on a wire to Bournemouth Beach ended an exhilarating first day in the Commonwealth Games host nation.

Mark Ormrod carried the Baton on Plymouth Hoe ©Scott Grenney/One PlymouthIn Exeter, Gold Coast 2018 weightlifting

Phil Andrews has been appointed as the new chief executive of USA Fencing following, what the national governing body, claimed was "a global search and multi-layered interview process that yielded a host of talented candidates."

The announcement of Andrews’ new role comes three months after he quit as chief executive of USA Weightlifting

who had been accused of sexual assault.Andrews had also held an executive role at the International Weightlifting

Phil Andrews spent nine successful years as chief executive of USA Weightlifting before stepping down

Guy Koller, President of the French Weightlifting Federation, has died while attending the Mediterranean

Alsace, was found dead in his hotel room in the Algerian city this morning.Only last week the French Weightlifting

Federation Executive Board until 2024 last week ©Getty ImagesThe International Weightlifting Federation

As President of the next Olympic Games' host nation’s weightlifting federation he was named ex-officio

The IWF is sending its deepest condolences to the French Weightlifting Federation and to Mr Koller’s

With his passing weightlifting lost a great leader and friend."

Russia's Deputy Sports Minister Andrey Fedorov has slammed international sport for moving events away from Russia, claiming it has led to "a decrease in the level of competitiveness" in sporting events after the invasion of Ukraine.

exclusion of Russian officials from IFs would have a detrimental effect on international sport.Last week, weightlifting

official Maxim Agapitov was permitted to stand in International Weightlifting Federation elections alongside

Next Monday, the Baton containing the Queen’s message to the athletes of the Commonwealth is set to arrive back in England.

greeted by a sunrise welcoming ceremony known as a Pōwhiri.Team chef de mission Nigel Avery, a double weightlifting

vote in the controversial head-to-head contest for one of the most senior roles at the International Weightlifting

the IWF Presidential elections of 2013 and 2017, is a former long-standing President of the European Weightlifting

Aján in the Presidential elections of 2013 and 2017.Quinones, who is President of the Pan American Weightlifting

citizenship for Iraq and Kazakhstan.Before today’s vote Karoliina Lundahl, President of the Nordic Weightlifting

: "Following the previous IOC statements and guidelines of what needs to be done by the IWF to save weightlifting

This is a new era for the IWF and for weightlifting."

Weightlifting will "risk losing everything" in a controversial vote tomorrow, the former International

Weightlifting Federation (IWF) Executive Board member Karoliina Lundahl has told delegates.

Writing to all eligible delegates in her capacity as President of the Nordic Weightlifting Federation

, Lundahl said she was "calling for support for Antonio Urso to save weightlifting on the Olympic Games

elections in Tirana, Albania last weekend.Peruvian Quinones, who is the President of the Pan American Weightlifting

: "Following the previous IOC statements and guidelines of what needs to be done by the IWF to save weightlifting

So please join the Nordic Weightlifting Federation in this call for support for Antonio Urso to save

I had two broad reactions to the International Swimming Federation's (FINA) decision this month to require individuals to have completed transition by the age of 12 to compete in women's competitions.

to another insidethegames colleague Brian Oliver’s recent story on the finances of the International Weightlifting