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— April 27, 2018

The Bulgarian federation asks for alms

Unpublished. Forced by a judgment of the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) to pay a fine of $500.000 to the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF), the Bulgarian Federation published... Read more "

— April 16, 2018

Protect clean nations

The wind of reform is blowing across weightlifting. Its international federation (IWF) announced last week a form of revolution in the allocation of Olympic quotas, granting only... Read more "

— April 13, 2018

The penalties fall

Sufficient? Not sure. Threatened with disappearing from the Olympic program for its inability to fight effectively against doping, weightlifting is going on the offensive. Its international federation (IWF) presented a... Read more "

— January 25, 2018

Four positive cases at the 2017 Worlds

The fight against doping seems far from won for weightlifting. As proof, the four positive cases detected during the last World Championships, played from November 28 to December 5... Read more "

— November 24, 2017

Iran and Saudi Arabia allow women

Historical. Iran and Saudi Arabia have announced that women will now be able to compete in weightlifting competitions in these two countries. “We created the women's committee of the Federation... Read more "

— November 15, 2017

A gold medal at auction

The initiative is extremely rare. Iranian weightlifter Kianoush Rostami, Olympic champion in the under 85 kilo category at the 2016 Rio Games, has decided to put his gold medal... Read more "

— November 14, 2017

Another Russian on blacklist

Heads continue to roll in Russian sport. The International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) announced Monday November 13 that Russian Ruslan Albegov, bronze medalist in addition to... Read more "

— October 4, 2017

Russians with a lie detector

Unpublished. Despite its one-year suspension by the International Federation (IWF), Russian weightlifting will stop at nothing to convince skeptics of its desire to hunt down... Read more "

— October 2, 2017

The big laundry

The International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) finally seems determined to use major means. It announced at the end of last week its decision to suspend, for a period of one... Read more "

— August 29, 2017

The CAS rejects the Chinese

China has just officially lost two new medals from the Beijing 2008 Games. Two of its female weightlifters medaled at home, Cao Lei in 75 kg, and Liu... Read more "