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Team Scotland Youth Trust awards 38 athletes COVID-19 relief grants

  • Commonwealth Games

Two athletes who competed at the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games are among 38 to benefit from one-off grants from the Team Scotland Youth Trust (TSYT).

, judo, netball, rugby sevens, squash, table tennis, shooting, triathlon, volleyball wrestling, and weightlifting


Iran sends female weightlifter to Olympics for first time after Samoa withdrawal

  • Weightlifting

There was no such thing as women's weightlifting in Iran until 2018 but already there is a landmark achievement

Tokyo 2020 Games.The Samoan Iuniarra Sipaia, eighth on the ranking list, has dropped out and the Iran Weightlifting

Parisa Jahanfekrian has been reallocated Sipaia's place.It means that the final session of women's weightlifting

that is about 80kg below what will be needed, her presence will give a further boost to Iran's female weightlifting

Jahanfekrian has ever made.We may well see Jamali, and other Iranian women, at Paris 2024 - provided weightlifting


Kiribati NOC sending three athletes to compete at Tokyo 2020 Olympics

  • ONOC

The Kiribati National Olympic Committee has confirmed the three athletes who will represent the nation at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.

final, finishing sixth in a field of 14.He is the younger brother of Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games weightlifting

2020 after Samoan weightlifter Vaipava Nevo Ioane - who took the Oceania spot in the International Weightlifting


The view from Lausanne - Kremlev sets out vision of Brave New World for AIBA

  • The Big Read

Bidden this past week to the 19th century splendour of Lausanne’s Beau-Rivage Palace, dutifully masked members of the international press - and other virtual participants - witnessed the President of the International Boxing Federation (AIBA), Umar Kremlev, make his case for a Brave New World.

doping by Russia and last year investigated financial and doping irregularities within the International Weightlifting


World champion weightlifter’s Olympic place under threat after cannabis positive

  • Weightlifting

A Chilean weightlifter who has tested positive for cannabis has until Sunday (July 4) to lodge an appeal that might rescue his place at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, his National Olympic Committee has said.

who sprang to prominence with a surprise victory at the old 85kg category at the 2017 International Weightlifting

in Anaheim, California, he was said by his Bulgarian coach Giorgi Panchev to be "the Lionel Messi of weightlifting


Agapitov calls for weightlifting unity after becoming first Russian to lead EWF

  • Weightlifting

says he feels "a strong sense of responsibility" in his new role as Interim President of the European Weightlifting

cover-ups and other offences over a 10-year period, of corruptly trying to escape a ban for the Turkish Weightlifting

President, in 2013.Seventeen Turkish athletes tested positive in a mission carried out by the International Weightlifting

doping suspension he served in the 1990s.Hasan Akkus has "stepped aside" as President of the European Weightlifting

backers argue, and overlooks the fact, as Agapitov has pointed out, that he has "cleaned up" Russian weightlifting


Samoa to send only overseas athletes to Tokyo 2020 due to COVID-19

  • Tokyo 2020

Samoa will only send overseas athletes to the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games because of concerns over the COVID-19 pandemic, the country’s Government has announced.

Of these, three are based in Samoa (weightlifting team), two are based in Australia (boxing team), four

The team most affected by the Government decision is the weightlifting team based in Samoa."

In respect of the Government decision, SASNOC and the Samoa Weightlifting Federation are withdrawing

the weightlifting team from going to the Olympic Games."


Weightlifting’s Olympic future still in the balance after "No" vote leads to stalemate at IWF Congress

  • Weightlifting

More than 50 members of the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) have voted against a proposal

weightlifting.The failure to agree on taking the sport in a new direction did nothing to remove the threat of weightlifting

Constitution would bar the Russian Maxim Agapitov, IWF Board member and Interim President of the European Weightlifting

offences and their sanctions.The ITA suggested that in deciding whether a National Federation had brought weightlifting


Colombia can compete at Tokyo 2020 weightlifting - but loses five of its places

  • Weightlifting

Colombia has escaped an outright ban from weightlifting at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games but has lost

International Testing Agency (ITA), which carries out all anti-doping procedures for the International Weightlifting

cleared to begin the qualification programme, in whatever form it takes, for Paris 2024 - provided weightlifting

Likewise, no collaborator of FCLP or any other member of the Colombian weightlifting family will be affected


McLaren makes "call for action" over information concerning past AIBA corruption

  • Boxing

Richard McLaren, the Canadian lawyer who has been given the job of investigating corruption within the International Boxing Federation (AIBA), has made a "call for action", inviting information from anyone who has been involved in the sport in recent years.

doping by Russia and last year investigated financial and doping irregularities within the International Weightlifting


Get it right or pay the price - IOC's message as weightlifting decides on its own future

  • Weightlifting

In less than four weeks the weightlifting programme at the delayed Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games is due to

become even more precarious tomorrow if the 155 - or thereabouts - eligible members of the International Weightlifting

tasked with adopting a new way forward for the troubled sport, the wrong outcome will mean no more weightlifting

zero.There has been enough controversy in the sport over the past year-and-a- half and if there is more, weightlifting

drugs were outlawed about half-a-century ago their use would occasionally provide a news story for weightlifting

Australia - want a change that effectively means if you are up to no good at a sporting body outside weightlifting


Vlad steps down from IWF - and Russia takes USA Weightlifting to task over call for Board members to

  • Weightlifting

A second member of the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) Executive Board has stepped aside

after an eight-month investigation into doping corruption, "stepped aside" as President of the European Weightlifting

the sport’s Olympic future on Wednesday (June 30), according to Phil Andrews, chief executive of USA Weightlifting

operating in violation of this decision" by allowing Agapitov to sit on its Board because the Russian Weightlifting

which refers specifically to "representatives of the Government of the Russian Federation".He said the weightlifting

the IWF Board, are, like Romania, banned from Tokyo because of doping.Intarat, who was in charge of weightlifting



Akkus steps down as EWF President after weightlifting scandal

  • Weightlifting

Hasan Akkus has "stepped aside" as President of the European Weightlifting Federation (EWF) three days

loses his seat, as a Continental Federation president, on the Executive Board of the International Weightlifting

when he was accused of tampering with results management.The ITA investigated doping corruption in weightlifting

after eight years as general secretary - tried to avoid a possible ban and a hefty fine for the Turkish Weightlifting

a doping ban in the 1990s, but he has cleaned up the sport since becoming president of the Russian Weightlifting

provisionally suspended for two doping offences.Vlad, an Olympic champion in 1984, is President of the Romanian Weightlifting


Weightlifting doping bans and Olympic invitation bring good news for Germany and Pakistan

  • Weightlifting

The updated qualifying lists for weightlifting at Tokyo 2020 show that Germany has earned two extra places

International Testing Agency (ITA), which carries out all anti-doping procedures for the International Weightlifting

Lisa-Marie and Sabine were of course very, very, very happy," said German Weightlifting Federation President

Kusterer is among the German weightlifters to have benefitted from the suspension of Romania from the weightlifting

For our goal to make weightlifting free of criminal people and methods we need independent investigations

The fact that weightlifting is now on the verge of being thrown out of the Olympic programme is demonstrably