The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) launched its new Web site ON 3rd November, coinciding with its tenth anniversary on November 10, 2009. The new Web site features improved navigation and reorganized content to better fulfill its users’ needs. An entirely new section, called “Anti-Doping Community”, was created to cater to the particular needs of WADA’s […]
Michaela Breeze, the 30-year-old PE teacher , who became Britain’s first woman Olympic weightlifter in 2004 at the Athens Games (ranked 9th), is Commonwealth champion (2006) and competed in the 63kg category in Beijing Olympics. (Breeze lifted her first two attempts at 80kg and 85kg but after her second snatch lift the Devon teacher pulled […]
Three times Olympian, Sam Pera, prior to the Mini Games was elected the new President of the Cook Islands Weightlifting Federation. The General Secretary remains Tony Hole, who has held the post for many years.
London 2012 Chairman Sebastian Coe commented: ‘Reaching 1,000 days to go gives us an opportunity to celebrate. Millions of people are already inspired by, benefiting from or delivering London 2012, from those who are taking part in sport participation projects inspired by the Games to the millions of National Lottery players who are helping to […]
More than 60 countries have confirmed their participation in the 2009 Goyang World Championships with their athletes and several further entries are now undergoing clarification and confirmation procedures. The IWF Secretariat has established the preliminary List of Entries, as of 29th October 2009, which you can now find herewith published under the Goyang logo.