Tionette Stoddard (Dunedin) Age: 35 Greatest sporting achievement: 7th Skeleton World Cup in St Moritz. Tionette’s first skeleton race was in 2004. She has also been the South Island’s 63kg weightlifting champion in 2006 and 2008, has played women’s rugby and first competed for New Zealand in the bobsleigh in 2001.
Cecilia McIntosh’s story is one of total persistence in the service of a dream that had frequently seemed destined to elude her. She had tried weightlifting, finishing second in the national titles during the 1990s but not qualifying for an Olympic Games. At javelin she got much closer, winning silver at the Commonwealth Games in […]
The host of the 26th SEA Games, Indonesia, has lined up 37 sports for the biennial meet which is scheduled for November next year. Indonesia Olympic Committee (KOI) in its website, confirmed that of the 37 sports, 22 would be Olympic events and the other 15 non-Olympic events. “During our presentation at the Asian Games […]
Through this partnership, key Maximized Living chiropractors will become members of the USA Weightlifting Wellness Advisory Council. These doctors, who meet standards established by Maximized Living and the USA Weightlifting Committee, will provide chiropractic services to weightlifting athletes at domestic and international events. “Maximized Living has more than a thousand doctors throughout the United States […]
Haitian athletes will receive assistance to help them compete in the next major multi-sport event ahead on the calendar, the Central American and Caribbean Games in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico this July. The aid to Haiti is being coordinated by a commission of National Olympic Committee leaders from the region formed in the aftermath of the […]