The Fiji Association of Sports and National Olympic Committee (FASANOC) chief executive Lorraine Mar expects the financial and practical effects of COVID-19 to impact the country’s preparations for the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games.

at the last edition in 2018.It sent 96 athletes to the Gold Coast, with Eileen Cikamatana winning a weightlifting

The International Testing Agency (ITA) has claimed it successfully implemented its anti-doping programme at the re-arranged Olympic Games in Tokyo as 6,200 samples were collected, despite challenges presented by COVID-19.

Committee, China, the United States, Britain and Australia.Athletics, aquatics, cycling, rowing and weightlifting

Three members of the weightlifting team due to represent Samoa at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games before

long-term partner of the National Olympic Committee (NOC).Fepulea'i expressed his sadness that the weightlifting

Our only team based here were the weightlifting team."

For those to follow weightlifting closely as I do, the sad thing is we had an opportunity in Don to medal

From the weights he was lifting in the Oceania Weightlifting Federation League, he would have been guaranteed

The Commonwealth Weightlifting Championships have been cancelled because of the COVID-19, it has been

gold medallist Maude Charron would have been among competitors eligible to compete at the Commonwealth Weightlifting

been cancelled.It is the second consecutive year the COVID-19 pandemic has forced the Commonwealth Weightlifting

Malaysian Weightlifting Federation (MWF) President Ayub Rahmat has claimed the governing body has a "

one-year period, triggering the Tokyo 2020 ban and the MWF being suspended for a year by the International Weightlifting

Malaysia was also fined more than $25,000 (£18,000/€21,000) in 2016 for doping offences in weightlifting

Uzbek capital Tashkent has been selected to host both the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF

IWF Junior World Championships in May this year, and a month earlier also played host to the Asian Weightlifting

Our friends in Tashkent have already proven themselves to be very capable organisers of important weightlifting

 "The IWF is pleased to be able to deliver this measure of certainty around the 2021 IWF World Weightlifting

 "This will follow on from clean weightlifting competitions at Tokyo 2020 and the adoption of completely

Sarah Davies, the outspoken chair of the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) Athletes' Commission

Thomas Bach, Davies says, "I am optimistic that we have made sufficient progress for the IOC to allow weightlifting

candidate for any elected position.Thailand, Romania and Egypt, all of which were banned outright from weightlifting

I believe we have opened a new chapter in weightlifting - one with a hope of transparent governance,

The Athletes of the IWF look forward to this next iteration of weightlifting - one of model governance

the Constitutional Congress, which was written after Bach told her personally that "there is no way weightlifting

A review of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games and a report on the upcoming Winter Olympics in Beijing are top of the agenda for the latest remote meeting of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Executive Board tomorrow.

Afghanistan since the country was plunged into crisis after the Taliban takeover, and the International Weightlifting

The Uzbekistan National Olympic Committee (NOC) has honoured its Tokyo 2020 medal-winning athletes with commemorative medals to celebrate the country's 30 years of independence.

champion of the men's 68-kilogram taekwondo competition and Akbar Djuraev triumphed in the men's 109kg weightlifting

Renzo Manyari has been elected as the new President of the Peruvian Olympic Committee (COP).

The lawyer, already the President of his country's national governing bodies for teqball and weightlifting

election.Peru has not won an Olympic medal since Barcelona 1992 ©Getty ImagesAs Peruvian Federation of Weightlifting

The Russian weightlifting official Maxim Agapitov has had a complaint about an American counterpart "

Agapitov, who is Interim President of the European Weightlifting Federation (EWF) and an Executive Board

member of the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF), complained that his reputation was damaged

in a letter by Phil Andrews, chief executive of USA Weightlifting (USAW).The letter, addressed in June

adjourned after a day of stasis until last week, when wide-ranging reforms were adopted that may save weightlifting

Tokyo should not have been withdrawn by the IOC.Maxim Agapitov is Interim President of the European Weightlifting

Ghana’s President Nana Akufo-Addo has promised the country will be ready to host the 2023 African Games after cutting the first sod on the $145 million (£105 million/€122 million) sports complex being built for the event in Ghana.

capacity of 10,000 will also be built and used to stage badminton, basketball, boxing, table tennis and weightlifting

The International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) has announced that its all-important elections will

be held on December 2 and 3 - but mystery surrounds the situation in European weightlifting, which may

There are rumours that 19 of the European Weightlifting Federation’s (EWF) 45 full members have put their

Weightlifting’s warring factions put their differences aside to adopt reforms which they hope will help to secure the sport’s future on the Olympic Games programme.

More than 90 per cent of 133 nations voted in favour of a new Constitution for the International Weightlifting

spoke of the "very good spirit" in which the meeting was conducted.Phil Andrews, chief executive of USA Weightlifting

largest step forward in governance in the sport’s history" and spoke of the need for "healing" in the weightlifting

The new document gives athletes a meaningful voice in the way weightlifting is governed, and supports

The President of the Qatar Olympic Committee (QOC) Sheikh Joaan bin Hamad Al-Thani has said the country achieved its aim of writing "a new chapter in the history of Qatari sport" after winning two gold medals and a bronze at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.

Meso Hassona earned gold in the men’s 96-kilogram weightlifting competition and Mutaz Essa Barshim shared