Indian Weightlifting Federation has launched its website. The website address is www.iwlf.net National Games at Jharkhand postponed up to 15th June The organizers of the National Games, Jharkhand, have informed that due to hot weather with temperature,around 43-44 Degree Celsius presently at Ranchi, Jamshedpur and Dhanbad and expecting the same in the month of June-2009, […]
Five years after the flame went out on the Athens 2004 Olympics the Greek capital is still saddled with white elephants, organisers said . The President of the Hellenic Olympic Commitee, Spyros Capralos, said that Athens, in many cases, ended up building too many venues without the foresight of having them serve the athletic needs […]
Oceania’s best weightlifter, Nauruan national Peter Yukio, will be competing at the Arafura Games. Yukio is regarded as the top lifter in Oceania and the Commonwealth after winning gold in the men’s 77kg category at the Commonwealth Weightlifting Championships in Limasso, Cyprus, in December last year. Yukio edged out Fiji’s top Olympic lifter Josefa Vueti […]
The 16th Asian Games (www.gz2010.cn/en), part of the worldwide Olympic movement and governed by the Olympic Council of Asia is pleased to report very significant progress with the National Olympic Committees that will be bringing more than 12,000 athletes to Guangzhou next year. “Among the 45 member National Olympic Committees (NOCs) of the Olympic Council […]
Maamaloa Lolohea, one of the best lifters Tonga has ever produced, an Olympic representative and South Pacific Games gold medalist in the 105+Kg category , has been appointed full time coach of Tonga. Maamaloa spent two years at the Oceania Weightlifting Institute under an IOC coaching scholarship. He already has a lot of lifters and […]