Montreal, November 9, 2009 – To mark its 10th anniversary, the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) will hold its annual end-of-the-year Executive Committee and Foundation Board meetings on December 1-2 in Stockholm, Sweden. WADA was founded on November 10, 1999, in Lausanne, Switzerland, following a joint initiative from the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and governments of […]
Sweden was the host of team match between three sides, Sweden, Norway, England.The formula for the competition is 2 youths, 2 juniors, 2 seniors and 2 woman lifters. The results for each individual lifter is transformed into Sinclair points and added together. The competition has never been so exciting as this year. After 144 lifts […]
A 15-year-old girl who could lift a prop-forward rugby player above her head was awestruck after shaking hands with the Queen. Weightlifting British record breaker Zoe Smith, from Abbey Wood, met the Queen on Tuesday whilst at the 2012 Olympic Park in Stratford to check on construction progress and meet with top athletes. Ms Smith […]
Matthew Curtain concluded his tenure with the Australian Weightlifting Federation on 6th November. The AWF’s new CEO is Michael Keelan. Michael Keelan is a well experienced sports administrator having served the AWF as its High Performance Manager since 2008. He is also a former elite athlete – having participated for England at the 1978 & […]
GUADALAJARA, Mexico – Toronto, which failed twice in bids to land the summer Olympics, was selected to host the 2015 Pan American Games on Friday. In a secret ballot by the Pan American Sports Organization, Toronto won on the first round with 33 votes, eliminating Lima, Peru, which received 11, and Bogota, which earned 7. […]