Weightlifting is not at risk of losing its place on the Olympic Games programme, despite the crisis at

Andrew Ryan said they believed weightlifting's spot at Paris 2024 was safe, but urged the International Weightlifting

elected for a third and final term as ASOIF President, claimed he does not believe the IOC will remove weightlifting

Paris 2024 programme.ASOIF President Francesco Ricci Bitti and executive director Andrew Ryan believe weightlifting

last year because of concerns with the sport's doping record.The IOC lifted the conditional status of weightlifting

Association of Sports and National Olympic Committee (FASANOC) chief executive Lorraine Mar has praised Weightlifting

Weightlifting Fiji President Della Shaw-Elder led the event, a level one workshop certified by the International

Weightlifting Federation (IWF).FASANOC said the workshop would ensure the national governing body has

This is an exciting moment especially as Weightlifting Fiji is in a rebuilding phase."

Weightlifting Fiji had been told by the IWF earlier this year that it was "leading the sport in gender

Fiji Board is female.For a short while two years ago, when Weightlifting Fiji was involved in a damaging

More than 400 athletes from 62 countries are set to compete in the International Weightlifting Federation

 The event has been organised by the Peruvian Weightlifting Federation.

to online events to ensure athletes are still able to compete during the global health crisis, but weightlifting

Former International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) director general Attila Adamfi has accused Richard

has been accused of trying to falsify documents and evidence to support allegations of corruption in weightlifting

Weightlifting remains in crisis and its place on the Olympic Games programme has seemingly been put in

Panam Sports has claimed organisers of the 2023 Pan American Games in Santiago are "working enthusiastically" to deliver the greatest edition of the event to coincide with three years to go until the Opening Ceremony.

event to be held in Chile.A further six will be refurbished before the Games open.Pan American Games weightlifting

The biggest surprise to me when writing yesterday that the Pyrenees-Barcelona bid for the 2030 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games had been put on hold was that it had not been already.

For instance, I would argue the crisis in both boxing and weightlifting have effectively been allowed

Tamás Aján was corrupt and had to go but he was "a convenient fall guy...part of a bigger problem in weightlifting

Papandrea has also noted that Ilya Ilyin, the most high-profile drugs cheat in weightlifting, is a good

clean at competitions" looks like.But she has only criticism for the "old guard" on the International Weightlifting

Papandrea and her Federation, USA Weightlifting, supported Aján in the last elections in 2017, when she

what I tried to do in general – that’s OK, I’ve weathered storms like this before as woman involved in weightlifting

that the 'old guard' will be strong favourites to maintain the status quo on the Board.When asked if weightlifting

Holocaust survivor and British Olympic weightlifter Sir Ben Helfgott has been presented with a Pride of Britain award.

members of the family to survive.Having been brought to England aged 15, Sir Ben began competing in weightlifting

and represented Britain at two Olympic Games.He captained the weightlifting team at Melbourne 1956 and

Sport in 2020 has been a tale of the unexpected and as Hallowe'en approaches, the time seems right to recall some moments when it has also been a horror story.

in the semi-finals of the 1999 Rugby World Cup ©Getty ImagesThere was almost a similar incident in weightlifting

Two of China’s top gold medal hopes for Tokyo 2020 were in world-record form at the Men’s National Championships in Kaihua, where a teenager made his mark in sensational style.

This is my character - as long as I get on the weightlifting platform, I will do my best."

Federation (FINA) Legal Committee member Darren Kane has been appointed to chair the new International Weightlifting

concerns" over IWF governance and put the sport on notice, saying the IOC would "review of the place of weightlifting

Four more Russian weightlifters have been banned for historic doping offences, including a 35-year-old woman who is already serving an eight-year ban for a second offence.

international weightlifting.She has competed in ultra-running and CrossFit since she was banned from weightlifting

and all four who have been provisionally suspended, were charged under rule 2.2 of the International Weightlifting

focus on historic doping cases has infuriated Maxim Agapitov, who was elected President of the Russian Weightlifting

International Testing Agency (ITA) earlier this year.The ITA has prioritised these cases while many others in weightlifting

The International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) will be restricted in its attempts to act on the sport

to its satisfaction, but I am certainly determined to ensure we do all we can for the sake of clean weightlifting

Romanian weightlifting is the subject of a law-enforcement investigation, the WADA report detailed ©Getty

athletes, coaches, officials and Member Federations adhere to their responsibilities to ensure clean weightlifting

records, including two which are banned from Tokyo 2020, Thailand and Egypt.WADA’s report stated that weightlifting

The International Weightlifting Federation’s (IWF) Interim President, Mike Irani, has admitted that the

latest revelations about doping corruption in weightlifting make for "shocking reading".

identifying actual and suspected cases of urine substitution can easily be applied to sports other than weightlifting

The provisional outcomes of WADA’s investigation into doping within weightlifting make for shocking reading

week’s agreement will empower the ITA to manage the entire anti-doping programme for international weightlifting

investigation and prosecution of all anti-doping rule violations, said an IWF statement.Since the first weightlifting

A three-year World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) investigation into doping in weightlifting, based largely

If many of the revelations in the McLaren Independent Weightlifting Investigation, published in June,

urine.A law-enforcement agency is currently investigating alleged anti-doping corruption in Romanian weightlifting

supervision" ©Getty ImagesWhile the more recent cases will be of greatest concern to the International Weightlifting

Russian bribes is under investigation for criminal activity.Maxim Agapitov, President of the Russian Weightlifting

we are talking about or who [paid the bribes to whom]," Agapitov said.Tamás Aján was International Weightlifting