World Weightlifting 2008/2 Special Pre-Olympic issue has appeared.
World Weightlifting 2008/2 Special Pre-Olympic issue has appeared.
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No answer from 18 countries out of 87!
No answer from 18 countries out of 85! IWF Media office leads a campaign to collect all the possible information on 85 participating nations’ athletes for media use during the Games. All countries were requested to complete the given questionnary on their lifter/s/. Thanks to those from 69 countries taking this “game” seriously, understanding how […]
Important Note on Beijing Weightlifting Technical Congress
We would like to remind all NFs and NOCs representatives that the Technical Congress will be held at 15:00 on 7 August 2008 in the Competition Venue. The Verification of Final entries will be held prior to the Congress, starting at 14:00 at the same location. As the deadline of entries (Sport Entry […]
All analysis results returned negative from Junior Worlds in Cali
The doping controls of the 2008 Junior World Weightlifting Championships held in Cali, Colombia are now complete. The IOC accredited laboratory (Cologne) reported all tests as negative. Of the 230 participating competitors the IWF subjected 35% to the testing and all proved to be clean.
Nauru’s weightlifting President unable to attend Olympics because of state visit to Taiwan.
Three-times Olympic weightlifter and President of Nauru, *Marcus Stephen* has agreed to abandon plans to attend the Beijing Olympics in order to make a state visit to Taiwan next week. Marcus Stephen is the only triple Olympian President of State in the world.He said while he was extremely disappointed he would not be at the […]