Albanian Tabaku was lucky enough to remain in competititon with 166 kg snatch for his third trial. Polish Adrian Zielinski was ahead of him by 3 kg and Russian Aukadov was behind him by another 3 kg. However, clean and jerk brought a new protagonist into the play. Tomasz Zielinski lifted 201kg. There was no succesful […]
The opening attempts of both Chinese and Colombian lifters were succesful, but finally Colombian Solis made a mistake in snatch and lost to Li Changying.The Chinese found herself on the lead (111 kg). Olympic fourth placed Solis had succesful movements in clean and jerk (130 kg, 136 kg) Li finally jerked 137 kg. Solis was […]
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) – The Dominican Olympic Committee has cleared weightlifter Yudelquis Contreras of doping allegations after her “B” sample came back negative. Contreras was one of six athletes (and the only weightlifter) competing at last year’s Beijing Olympics who had tested positive for CERA, an advanced version of the blood-boosting drug EPO, during […]
Venue: Dongguan Gymnasium Sport(s) Weightlifting Seating Capacity 4,340 Construction Status Renovated or Extended Under Construction Distance from the Asian Games Town (km) 64.6
The four candidate cities bidding to host the Games of the XXXI Olympiad in 2016 – Chicago (USA), Tokyo (Japan), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) and Madrid (Spain) – are all at the Olympic Museum in Lausanne (Switzerland) on 17th and 18th June to give a technical briefing to the 93 members of the International Olympic […]