Olympic gold-medal winner Matthias Steiner has ruled out a return to Austria. The Austria-born weightlifter won gold at last summer’s Olympic Games in Beijing for Germany. He joined that country’s weight-lifting federation after falling out with the Austrian Weightlifters Association over training methods in 2005. Speaking to ORF.at, Steiner said today (Weds): “Performing for Austria […]
THE Bahrain Olympic Committee’s (BOC) new board of directors was announced during the ordinary meeting of the general assembly held at the National Stadium’s conference hall in Riffa. The meeting, chaired by present president Shaikh Isa bin Rashid Al Khalifa, saw 11 of Bahrain’s senior sports officials vie for seven posts within the committee board […]
As the country’s top Olympic event, weightlifters should qualify for US$90,000 sponsorship each year, head of the weightlifting department of national Sports Administration of Vietnam, Do Dinh Khang said. However the team received far less than it needed, he said. “Of the $90,000 budget for last year’s tournaments for weightlifting and bodybuilding, we saved $50,000 […]
Former Olympian and World Championship medallist Canadian Maryse Turcotte attended the 4th International Athletes Forum organised under the auspices of the IOC in Marrakesh, Morocco, representing the International Weightlifting Federation. Here is her short report after the Forum:“As the IWF athletes’ representative at the 4th IOC International Athletes Forum, I was involved in the working […]
When Sarah Robles transferred from Alabama to Arizona State to be a redshirt thrower on the track team, she found herself looking for a place to lift in the week before the school’s athletic facilities reopened. Robles looked on USA Weightlifting’s Web site to find a club in the area and wound up with Joe […]