A handful of China’s top Olympic athletes were honored at the country’s most prestigious annual sports award ceremony in Beijing. At 2008 China Top Ten Benefiting Laureus Sports For Good award ceremony, seventeen-year-old Long Qingquan who won a gold medal in the men’s 56kg weightlifting competition at the Beijing Olympics received the Rising Star award. […]
Upon the personal invitation of Dr. Tamás Aján, IWF President, WADA President John Fahey and Director General David Howman paid a 20-hour visit to Budapest on 25 February. “The IWF’s anti-doping program has improved tremendously, year by year, and is very successful – as proven by the Beijing Olympic Games, when only one positive case […]
Those National Federation delegates who have not yet sent their Final Registration Form and hotel reservation to the Spanish Organising Committee regarding the IWF Electoral Congress in Madrid must do so before 10 March 2009. Updated information on hotel rates and Final Registration Forms can be found by clicking on the Electoral Congress on this website. […]
At its meeting held in Harbin, China, on 13 February 2009, the FISU Executive Committee allocated the 2nd World University Weightlifting Championships to Chinese Taipei. The Championships will be held in 2010 in the city of Taichung.
On the occasion of WADA’s fourth Media Symposium, held at the Olympic Museum in Lausanne on February 24, WADA’s President John Fahey urged all parties involved in the fight against doping in sport to further strengthen the foundations of the anti-doping system and to intensify the implementation of new strategies to supplement the traditional means […]