Sohrab Moradi, one of the world's best weightlifters who was seen as a strong favourite to win a second Olympic gold medal next year, is likely to miss Tokyo 2020 because of a serious back injury suffered in training this week.
The most successful female coach in world weightlifting failed to turn up for a groundbreaking women's coaching seminar in Sweden, at which Asia was the only continent not represented.
USA Weightlifting (USAW) is continuing its attempts to change the voting rules of the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) despite an initial lack of support for the idea from a working party.
The International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) carried out a two-day technical visit to Las Vegas to assess preparations for this year's Youth World Championships.
On October 30 last year Tamás Aján, President of the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF), said: "While we will not take anything for granted we are confident that weightlifting will remain part of the Olympic programme at Paris 2024."
A weightlifter who tested positive for testosterone has been cleared to return to competition because of an administrative mix-up.
Two Olympic champions are among four new doping positives from Thailand's 2018 World Championships team, taking to six the number of Thais who have failed tests from the International Weightlifting Federation's (IWF) flagship event in Turkmenistan last November.
USA Weightlifting have announced a partnership with Tropical 7s Rugby as they aim to find the next generation of lifters.
The President of the Thailand Amateur Weightlifting Association (TAWA) Boossaba Yodbangtoey visited International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) counterpart Tamás Aján at his office in Budapest.
The Thai Weightlifting Federation (TAWA) held a celebratory event to mark their 60th anniversary.
Five weightlifters, including Olympic champions Oleksiy Torokhtiy from Ukraine and Uzbekistan's Ruslan Nurudinov, have been handed provisional suspensions after retests of their samples from London 2012 came back positive.
Peru's José Quiñonez has been re-elected as President of the South American Weightlifting Federation (CSLP).
Nominations are open for USA Weightlifting's 2018 awards, which recognise strong individual contributions to the sport.
Teenage weightlifter Dayana Dimitrova has reportedly been banned from the sport for life after a second doping offence.
Very strong progress has been made by the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) but the sport's place on the programme for Paris 2024 remains conditional, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Executive Board announced here today.
At the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Iranian judoka Arash Miresmaeili was disqualified for weighing in at nearly four pounds above the limit for his weight class of his under-66 kilograms match against an Israeli opponent Ehud Vaks in the first round. It was claimed Miresmaeili had gone on an eating binge to protest the International Olympic Committee's recognition of the state of Israel. Iran does not recognise the state of Israel, and Miresmaeili's actions won praise from high-ranking Iranian officials. Mohammad Khatami, the country's President at the time, was quoted as saying Miresmaili's actions would be "recorded in the history of Iranian glories". He was later awarded $125,000 by the Government - the same amount given to Olympic gold medallists.
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