At the conclusion of the women’s competitions at the Asian Continental Qualification Championships in Kanazawa City, Japan, the following nations obtained Olympic slots for Beijing 2008, for one athlete each:INA – VIE – MGL – IND (This qualification will become final only after the anti-doping controls.) The men continue their contest for the Olympic slots […]
Sixty-eight women and 117 men are on the start list of the Asian Championships starting on 27 April 2008 in Kanazawa City, Japan.With quite a few nations of the Continent already having won their quota to the Beijing Olympic Games, athletes representing 28 member-countries are still hoping to earn the opportunity to fly to China this […]
The IOC Athletes’ Commission members gathered in Lausanne, Switzerland, to discuss how to address the challenging international backdrop into which the Olympic Games have been drawn in recent weeks. The athletes spoke passionately and from their own experiences about the inappropriateness of manipulating and using athletes as political tools. At the close of the meeting, […]
In both the women’s and the men’s heaviest categories excitement was not spared from participants and spectators at the 2008 European Championships, which was rounded up last weekend in Italy. In the final count, the following nations won the available Olympic slots for Beijing on the basis of the team classification: Women – TUR: 2, […]
The European Championships of 2008 for Men and Women are being run in Lignano Sabbiadoro, a famous Italian seaside resort. This is at the same time the last Olympic qualification opportunity for the Continent’s weightlifters. In the men’s categories altogether 163 lifters were entered from 36 countries. The women’s fields are composed of 108 athletes […]