The Sri Lankan contingent to the 11th South Asian Games (SAG), comprising 204 men, 90 women and 69 officials making a total of 363 persons, will be the largest ever local squad to participate in any international event. They are ready to take part at the 11th SAG scheduled to be held from January 29 […]
A day after getting $500,000 fine, Indian Weightlifting Federation got another jolt on Saturday evening. The Union sports ministry and Indian Olympic Association have refused to help the ‘tainted’ association. The decision was taken at a high power meeting between sports minister MS Gill and IOA chief Suresh Kalmadi in New Delhi on Saturday. Sources […]
The new President of the Weightlifting Federation of Iran, Hossein Rezazadeh, paid an introductory visit to the IWF headquarters to meet the IWF President, Dr. Tamás Aján. The IRIWF delegation included Darab Riahi, Vice President and Afshin Riahi, International Director. In the discussions with the IWF President and staff they touched subjects of interest for […]
By Seyed Abdolhamid Ahmadi President, Sports Press Association of the Islamic Republic of Iran The Islamic Solidarity Games Federation (ISSF) located in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia has canceled this year’s Islamic Solidarity Games which were to be held in Tehran in April. The ISSF had asked the Iranians to remove the words “Persian Gulf” from the […]
Lausanne, January 19, 2010 – On the occasion of the World Anti-Doping Agency’s (WADA) fifth Media Symposium, held at the Olympic Museum in Lausanne, WADA’s President John Fahey urged all parties involved in the fight against doping in sport to further intensify their efforts toward clean sport and not to succumb to complacency despite significant […]