According to a recent communication from the International Olympic Committee, any anti-doping testing between 27 July and 24 August 2008 involving athletes eligible to take part in the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games are to be considered as "Olympic tests". Furthermore, there is a change in TUE (Therapeutic Use Exemptions) procedures: any TUE requests for the above […]
Bulgarian Milen Dobrev will be unable to defend his title at Beijing Olympics after failing to recover from a waist injury, the Bulgarian Weightlifting Federation said on Wednesday. The 27-year-old Dobrev won gold four years ago in the 94-kg category at the Athens Games. "He's still suffering from the injury and it will prevent him […]
For the sixth time in its history the Small Nations Tournament took place in Luxembourg in the city of Hamm. Eleven teams with forty-three athletes contested for the victory. The Tournament celebrated its 30th edition. This time, Cyprus won rather easily in front of Luxembourg and Monaco; Iceland and San Marino finished in the 4th and 5th […]
Although the Qualification Events to the 2008 Beijing Games have already finished, there are still several anti-doping test results missing, because the laboratories are overloaded. Before all control analysis results and procedures are complete, the Olympic Qualification cannot be complete and final. Therefore, the IWF is now informing its members that the communication to the […]
Paul Coffa reports from Oceania: "The 2008 edition of the UESAKA E-mail International Club Tournament was another great event with 772 competitors from a record entry of 139 clubs from the five continents. Apologies for not entering a further 200 competitors from 17 other clubs from Asia and Europe but unfortunately their results came in […]