RIO DAY 1 By Brian Oliver at Riocentro, Rio de Janeiro Thailand’s Sopita Tanasan is from a family of boxers but she opted for a different sport and it paid off when she won the first weightlifting gold medal of the Rio Games, the women’s 48kg. Tanasan, 21, lifted a total of 200kg to finish […]
Japanese Weightlifting Federation President Yuriko Koike has been elected the first female Governor of Tokyo today. Koike, who has previously served as Japan’s first female Defence Minister, beat Liberal Democratic Party candidate Hiroya Masuda and journalist Shuntaro Torigue. Koike, 64, will now play a key role in orchestrating preparations for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and […]
The IWF Executive Board decided today to ban the Russian Weightlifting Federation from recommending/entering/participating with athletes and Technical Official at Rio Olympic Games 2016. The decision is effective as of today. The IWF Executive Board carefully studied question of the participation of Russian weightlifters in the Olympic Games Rio. The study included the World Anti-Doping […]
The IWF reports that as a consequence of the IOC’s reanalyses of samples from the 2012 London Olympic Games (IOC – wave 2), the samples of the following Athletes have returned Adverse Analytical Findings: ZAIROV, Intigam (AZE) – Dehydrochlormethyltestosterone (S1.1 Anabolic agents) ZABOLOTNAYA, Nataliya (RUS) – Dehydrochlormethyltestosterone (S1.1 Anabolic agents) TSIREKIDZE, Rauli (GEO) – Dehydrochlormethyltestosterone, […]
Following the decision of the International Olympic Committee Executive Board concerning the participation of Russian athletes in the Olympic Games in Rio 2016, the IWF states that: The IWF acknowledges that the IOC will not accept any entry of any Russian athlete in the Olympic Games Rio 2016 unless such athlete can meet the conditions […]