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Coldeen appointed CNMI Chef de Mission for Pacific Mini Games

  • Pacific Games News

Former sportscaster Bob Coldeen has been named Northern Marianas Islands (CNMI) Chef de Mission for the home Pacific Mini Games later this year.

Olympics led to the Pacific Mini Games being moved to 2022, and this delay helped organisers add tennis, weightlifting


Alan Hubbard: Boxing’s Olympic future likely to be decided by NBC, not IOC

  • Inside the Blogs

Despite some positive counterpunching from the sport’s new Russian supremo, Umar Kremlev, Olympic boxing remains on the ropes fighting for its future. 

seems secure for Paris three years hence, we learn that it is not on the list of 28, together with weightlifting

its ills and consequently it does not appear on the provisional list for the LA Games, together with weightlifting


More than 6,000 athletes set to participate in 2022 Saudi Games

  • Multi-Sport Games

More than 6,000 athletes are set to participate in the 2022 Saudi Games across 45 sports, the Saudi Arabian Olympic and Paralympic Committee have announced.

skateboarding, squash, swimming, table tennis, taekwondo, tennis, triathlon, volleyball, water polo, weightlifting


PNGOC and weightlifter Toua support COVID-19 vaccine drive

  • ONOC

The Papua New Guinea Olympic Committee (PNGOC) and the country's best-known Olympian, Dika Toua, have backed a campaign urging residents to get vaccinated against COVID-19.

vaccination because I did not want to die," Toua says in a video which juxtaposes vaccination with weightlifting

Games gold medal at Glasgow 2014 and is a 12-time continental champion.No other woman has competed in weightlifting


IBA reveals plans for pivotal elections at Congress in May with Olympic place still under threat

  • Boxing

The International Boxing Association (IBA) has revealed its plans for the election of officials to a reformed and reduced Board of Directors later this year, with an Electoral Congress set to be held at the Women's World Championships in Istanbul on May 13 and 14.

with the IBA facing a deadline of 2023 to save its Olympic status from Los Angeles 2028.Along with weightlifting


Surfing inclusion at Los Angeles 2028 can help shake up Olympics, claims Aguerre

  • Surfing

International Surfing Association (ISA) President Fernando Aguerre believes there has been a "paradigm shift" to shake up established Olympic sports after surfing, skateboarding and sport climbing were officially added to the initial programme for the Los Angeles 2028 Olympics.

International Olympic Commission (IOC) Session here yesterday.The long-time Olympic sports of boxing, weightlifting


Los Angeles 2028 chair welcomes official inclusion of surfing, skateboarding and sport climbing

  • Los Angeles 2028

Los Angeles 2028 chair Casey Wasserman believes the inclusion of surfing, skateboarding and sport climbing could bring "freshness" to the Olympics.

shooting, archery, triathlon, sailing and volleyball on the initial list for Los Angeles 2028.Boxing, weightlifting

controversial decision.Long-running issues at the International Boxing Association (IBA) and the International Weightlifting


European Championships switched from Bulgaria to Albania because of weightlifting leadership dispute

  • Weightlifting

A weightlifting leadership dispute in Bulgaria has forced a change of date and venue for the 2022 European

capital Tirana instead of the original venue of Sofia, Bulgaria.The decision was taken by the European Weightlifting

Arif Majed, who has pledged to reform Bulgarian weightlifting after it was "lost in space for the last

has been blocked in his attempt to initiate reforms after being elected President of the Bulgarian Weightlifting

May.Majed cannot be recognised by the EWF because of "local politics that have caused a big problem for weightlifting

withdrew its validation.An aerial view of Tirana in Albania, the new venue for this year's European Weightlifting


British weightlifters put on a show in build-up to "fantastic" Commonwealth Games

  • Weightlifting

Weightlifting at Birmingham 2022 will be "one of the best competitions in the history of the Commonwealth

athletes a last chance to qualify via the ranking lists after all the COVID-related disruption to the weightlifting

Birmingham to a far higher level than usual, said Paul Coffa, general secretary of the Commonwealth Weightlifting

What makes it so good is that more and more countries are now competitive in weightlifting because the

Fraer Morrow was among the winners at the British Weightlifting Championships in Derby ©British Weight

LiftingThe same view was expressed by Craig Walker, President of the Canadian Weightlifting Federation.He


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the British International Motor Show.At Birmingham 2022, badminton, boxing, table tennis, netball and weightlifting



IWF leaders in celebratory mood after vote allows elections to go ahead

  • Weightlifting

The International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) elections in June can go ahead after a last-minute round-up

In December the IOC had already cut our quota for Paris 2024 and announced that weightlifting had been

A year ago, the IOC set us three key tests - reform our governance, ensure clean weightlifting competitions

International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach has previously referred to the International Weightlifting

said, looking forward to June: "Now we will show the IOC that our Congress can choose the best to lead weightlifting

Romain Bizzini of France and Lorenza Mel of Italy.The nominated members have a background in law, or weightlifting


ANOC stands by Tonga and vows to "help as we can"

  • ANOC News

Association of National Olympic Committees (ANOC) leaders have expressed solidarity with the people of Tonga after the country was hit by a deadly volcanic eruption and tsunami.

Committee sent six athletes to the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, competing in taekwondo, swimming, athletics and weightlifting