Youth World Championships Entry deadline expiring today!
Final Entries to the 1st EGAT Youth World Championships (ChiangMai, THA) are to be sent until today, 4th May 2009. Please refer to: 1st EGAT YWC
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Weightlifting legend Süleymanoğlu stable
Süleymanoğlu was taken to Bakırköy Dr. Sadi Konuk Hospital on Thursday after having a seizure from a high fever. The hospital’s vice chief of medicine, Dr. İbrahim Morgül, said Süleymanoğlu was in stable condition, but more tests were needed before making a diagnosis about the 42-year-old iron pumper. “We have yet to know if the […]
New Round of Drug Testing Implicates Six Athletes
National sports bodies in Bahrain and Italy confirmed Wednesday that 1,500m champion Rashid Ramzi and road race silver medalist Davide Rebellin were among the six for positive for the new blood-boosting drug CERA in retests of their samples. The other four were Dominican women’s weightlifter Yudelquis Contreras, German cyclist Stephan Schumacher, Greek race walker Athanasia […]
Dezső Dobor, has been elected as member of AIPS Executive Board
Dezső Dobor, IWF Head Press Officer and spokesman has been elected as member in the Executive Board of AIPS (Association International Press Sportive) for the term 2009 – 2013 The elections were held on the 1st May during the 72nd AIPS Congress held in Milan, Italy. 110 countries were represented at election. Gianni Merlo ( […]
Mediterranean Games: City, Region and Government confirm the strong symbolic meaning of the sport event
“Abruzzo has to face a difficult moment of big challenges, and we are accepting all of them because they make us feel alive, strong and they help us to think of the future”, the mayor, Massimo Cialente, declared L’Aquila is Abruzzo and Abruzzo is L’Aquila, this is the idea shared and for that everyone wants […]