Eighteen weightlifters from six countries are suspected of providing manipulated urine samples after a World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) probe discovered evidence of "doppelgangers" impersonating athletes.

cases will be presented to the International Testing Agency, which is in charge of the International Weightlifting

Federation's (IWF) anti-doping programme, for results management.An investigation into weightlifting

Operation Arrow investigated urine substitution in weightlifting ©Getty ImagesGerman broadcaster ARD&

 "The investigation into weightlifting has been complex, difficult and time-consuming with many

As well as Operation Arrow, the WADA investigation into weightlifting also includes Operation Outreach

The triple Olympic champion Pyrros Dimas and International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) Interim President

Dimas said he had "serious doubts about the future of weightlifting" but "as an athlete I learned that

Pyrros Dimas won three Olympic gold medals for Greece ©Getty ImagesHe is now technical director of USA Weightlifting

The Albanian Weightlifting Federation (AWF) issued a statement which said weightlifting "is in danger

The AWF expresses support for the new spirit that aims to lead international weightlifting towards a

Albania featured prominently in the McLaren Report on weightlifting corruption, which revealed widespread

China has demonstrated once more the remarkable strength in depth of its elite weightlifters.

performances due to too much pressure to pursue a better result," said Meng Bo, deputy director of the Chinese Weightlifting

snatch of 120kg.Peng is based in Shilong in Guangdong Province, the hometown of China’s first great weightlifting

Today Birmingham 2022 is confirming that it will be the first major multi-sport event to award more medals to women than men for the first time in history.

 I've been enjoying my role as chair of the International Weightlifting Federation Athletes' Commission

, which is currently under construction in Smethwick.My focus will be on days two to seven when the weightlifting

The International Weightlifting Federation has told its 187 members that its next elections could be

prominent doctor resigned from the IWF Medical Committee.Dr Dominik Doerr, president of the Luxembourg Weightlifting

and corruption will be diminished in a virtual format," Doerr wrote in his resignation letter.He said weightlifting

statement amid a turbulent period for the governing body ©IWFWhen the McLaren report on corruption in weightlifting

has already addressed a number of the issues she raised with the IOC, while concentrating on moving weightlifting

in Peru had to be cancelled because of COVID-19.The competition is being organised by the Peruvian Weightlifting

A doctor who has direct links between the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) and a key part

that it was "deeply concerned" about the way the sport is run.Antonio Urso, President of the European Weightlifting

his fears for the sport, as Urso and Papandrea had already done.Doerr, President of the Luxembourg Weightlifting

Antonio Urso, the Italian who was beaten by Tamás Aján in the last International Weightlifting Federation

President role by the Board last week.Urso, who is also standing down from the Presidency of the European Weightlifting

Federation next April, told insidethegames: "I did my best to serve weightlifting but I have no more

Urso is one of many people within weightlifting who is calling for the IOC to take over the running of

We must have a new Constitution, new edicts, new rules, an entirely new approach to managing weightlifting

the IOC.After Aján resigned in April, two months before he was castigated by the McLaren report on weightlifting

Here is a report amalgamated, with slight modifications, from three different sources – this website and two newspapers who published this news on May 22 last year.

"The International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) has been suspended by the International Olympic Committee

These decisions were taken in the interest of the athletes and the sport of weightlifting," he said.

The "slight modifications" are the substitution of weightlifting for boxing and IWF for the International

The last seven days has been a turbulent time for the sport of weightlifting, and the sport's future

There is nobody on a weightlifting team that understands the need to listen carefully to the athletes

New dates for the Pacific Mini Games which avoid a clash with the postponed Tokyo 2020 Olympics have been confirmed.

reduced from 12 sports to six as a cost-cutting measure, although it has been suggested that tennis and weightlifting

of Russia’s world champions has been provisionally suspended on a doping charge by the International Weightlifting

Almost all recent suspensions were for offences committed five to eight years ago.Russia was barred from weightlifting

were retested by the International Olympic Committee (IOC).Maxim Agapitov, President of the Russian Weightlifting

bronze winner Ruslan Albegov – who was among those banned on October 8.The President of the Russian Weightlifting

The Barbados Olympic Association (BOA) has announced the appointment of Shelley-Ann Griffith as its assistant secretary general.

September, having been involved in sports at various levels, including taekwondo, football, cricket, weightlifting

the BOA said gave her key early experience.This reportedly laid the foundation for her managing the weightlifting

Finance Committee and was appointed to the Member Governance Review Commission of the Pan American Weightlifting

Philippine Olympic Committee President Abraham Tolentino has requested additional funds to help the country earn its first Olympic gold medal at next year's Games in Tokyo.

champion Carlos Yulo, world boxing silver medalist Eumir Marcial and pole-vaulter EJ Obiena.Olympic weightlifting

The Executive Board of the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) has been accused of putting its

12 hours, following the departure last night of Antonio Urso, the Italian president of the European Weightlifting

continues to be highly concerned about the confusing decisions taken by the Board of the International Weightlifting

President.There was widespread condemnation of the appointment of Intarat, from the IOC and within weightlifting

number of positives rather than clean athletes.Not using your collective decades [of experience in weightlifting

most prominent anti-corruption campaigners, has resigned from the Executive Board of the International Weightlifting

Commission and has now lost one of its most respected Board members.Urso, President of the European Weightlifting

share the political line of this Board, which seems to me crazy and destructive of the future of world weightlifting

aside within 48 hours.Intarat is from Thailand, a nation with a bad doping record which is banned from weightlifting

at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.He was named in the McLaren Report into weightlifting corruption as

athlete quotas because of multiple doping offences.Meanwhile the Executive Committee of the Russian Weightlifting

The British doctor Mike Irani has become the fourth leader of the International Weightlifting Federation

2020 because of doping, as Papandrea’s replacement was criticised by the IOC and caused outrage in the weightlifting

In a year when weightlifting has been blighted by the corruption scandal, the IWF Board was widely condemned

existence.It was launched by Sarah Davies, the British lifter who chairs the IWF Athletes Commission.USA Weightlifting