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— June 16, 2017

Egypt threatened with suspension

Bad business. According to information revealed by the Reuters agency, the Egyptian Weightlifting Federation is under threat of suspension. In question, the announcement of 7 cases of doping among its... Read more "

— May 30, 2017

Ajan returns for a 5th term

The battle promised to be intense, furious and indecisive. But it quickly took on an air of déjà vu. In office for 17 years, the Hungarian Tamas Ajan was re-elected on Monday... Read more "

— May 26, 2017

Agreement with Lagardère

Its champions fall for doping one after the other, but the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) still hopes to attract the media. It announces that it has renewed its agreement until 2020... Read more "

— December 28, 2016

First medal for Samoa

Historical. Samoa is now on the Olympic medal table. Weightlifter Ele Opeloge (photo below) won the first medal in the country's history eight years after the fact.... Read more "

— December 21, 2016

A roof for Indonesian medalists

The Indonesian Weightlifting Federation keeps its promises. It announced through its president, on the occasion of its annual general meeting, that it had donated a house... Read more "

— October 19, 2016

Anaheim recovers the 2017 Worlds

Change of scenery and continent for the 2017 World Weightlifting Championships. The event was initially allocated to the city of Penang, Malaysia. But the committee... Read more "

— October 14, 2016

A positive Romanian at the Rio Games

The list of weightlifters testing positive at the Games, already around fifty names long between Beijing 2008 and London 2012, could quickly grow. The International Weightlifting Federation has just... Read more "

— September 16, 2016

The Russian president returns the keys

Logical and predictable. Sergey Syrtsov (photo below), the president of the Russian Weightlifting Federation, has given up his apron. He announced his resignation by mail to his peers in the organization,... Read more "

— September 16, 2016

The waltz of the dopes

Surrealist. After re-analysis of the samples from the time, it turns out that 6 of the first 7 weightlifters in the 94 kg category at the London Games in 2012 were doped.... Read more "

— July 22, 2016

Kazakhs will go to Rio

Confused and contradictory. The Kazakhstan weightlifting team, excluded from the Rio Games at the start of the month after the revelation of numerous positive cases among its best athletes, should be... Read more "