The Commonwealth Weightlifting Championships have been cancelled because of the COVID-19, it has been announced.

Malaysian Weightlifting Federation (MWF) President Ayub Rahmat has claimed the governing body has a "no compromise" approach to anti-doping after two of its athletes tested positive for banned substances.

Uzbek capital Tashkent has been selected to host both the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) World Championships and the embattled governing body's all-important Electoral Congress.

Sarah Davies, the outspoken chair of the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) Athletes' Commission, believes the sport has "opened a new chapter" by adopting rules that give athletes a meaningful voice while curbing the influence of "doping nations".

Renzo Manyari has been elected as the new President of the Peruvian Olympic Committee (COP).

The Russian weightlifting official Maxim Agapitov has had a complaint about an American counterpart "partially upheld" - a second ruling in his favour during a time of turmoil in the sport in recent weeks.

The International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) has announced that its all-important elections will be held on December 2 and 3 - but mystery surrounds the situation in European weightlifting, which may have to vote in a permanent leader a few days earlier.

Weightlifting’s warring factions put their differences aside to adopt reforms which they hope will help to secure the sport’s future on the Olympic Games programme.

Some of weightlifting’s most popular Olympic champions of the 21^st century - and a 92-year-old who won Olympic gold nearly 70 years ago - have added their voices to the clarion call for the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) Executive Board to put the sport before their own interests.

Athletes’ leader Sarah Davies has told the Executive Board of the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) that the sport belongs to its athletes, not those who govern it - and that its Olympic future is doomed unless the entire Board resigns.

Turkmenistan’s first-ever Olympic medallist, weightlifter Polina Guryeva, has received a series of gifts to mark her achievement at a special ceremony in Ashgabat.

Weightlifting’s warring factions are involved in a dispute that could end in legal action concerning the Acting President of the European Weightlifting Federation (EWF), Maxim Agapitov.

Relations between the two sides of weightlifting’s big divide have worsened in the past few days as the Executive Board of the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) has refused to change course despite strong warnings about its future from inside and outside the sport.

The catastrophic cost of weightlifting losing its Olympic status is laid out in a letter to the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) and all its members.