— 23 March 2022
Weightlifting is sinking further into crisis. Provisionally excluded from the programme of the Los Angeles 2028 Games, the discipline has been hit by a new doping case. Not the... Read more »
— 10 March 2022
It is about time. The International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) has sided with the IOC’s recommendation in the face of the war in Ukraine. Its executive committee decided to ban... Read more »
— 3 December 2021
The threat has been lifted. Unlike the Winter Universiade in Lucerne or the figure skating Grand Prix Final in Osaka, the World Weightlifting Championships will not fall victim to... Read more »
— 2 December 2021
After the Winter Universiade in Lucerne and the Men’s World Squash Championships in Kuala Lumpur, a third international event in December is in danger of being cancelled. The World... Read more »
— 29 November 2021
The International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) is sinking further into crisis. Threatened by the IOC to disappear from the Olympic programme, without an elected president, the body was supposed to... Read more »
— 25 June 2021
The weightlifting world keeps being unveiled. A report by the International Testing Agency (ITA), published on Thursday, June 24th, reveals the existence of 146 unsolved doping cases from 2009... Read more »
— 18 June 2021
The next Olympic weightlifting tournament is shaping up to be less crowded. The International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) announced on Thursday, June 17th, that it had excluded a new country... Read more »
— 14 June 2021
It’s almost official: New Zealand weightlifter Laurel Hubbard will be the first transgender athlete to compete in the Olympic Games. The International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) has published the world... Read more »
— 6 May 2021
History could be made in less than three months, during the Tokyo Olympics weightlifting competitions. But an inevitable controversy could also come along. According to an official of the... Read more »
— 1 March 2021
Confusion continues to reign in global weightlifting. The international disciplinary body (IWF) has decided to postpone its elective general assembly to a later date. It was scheduled for March... Read more »
