JINAN, East China, Oct. 15 (Xinhua) — Though six of eight Beijing Olympic champions will show their power in the weightlifting competitions of the 11th Chinese National Games, rookies may not only challenge their domestic domination, but also their tickets of the London Olympics in 2012. Liu Chunhong of the host Shandong team, the women’s […]
Sydney – A magic moment from the Beijing Games was recreated Thursday at the World Masters Games in Sydney when Friedrich Steiner, father of Olympic weightlifting champion Matthias Steiner, paraded a gold medal won in the men’s 70-74 age category. The younger Steiner, a German citizen after falling out with the Austrian weightlifting federation, endeared […]
For those of you not familiar, China’s National Games is held every four years in the country since 1975, when the Cultural Revolution was coming to an end. This year the 11th National Games will be held in Shandong Province, from October 16th to 28th. Every four years, the best players in national teams go […]
Friends and family of Olympic weightlifter, Alfred Knight, will be attending a special ceremony this Saturday, 17th October, to unveil a brand new street at David Wilson South Midlands’ Arena Gate development in Duston, which has been named after the sporting hero. Alfred Knight Close is just one of a number of streets within the […]
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 the world. To celebrate a […]