Olympic Weightlifting News

China demonstrated its strength as a weightlifting powerhouse at last year's Beijing Olympics, and is following-up with another dominating show at the World Weightlifting Championships.

The Indian Weightlifting Federation, facing strong action from the international body for a spate of dope cases recently, is paying the price for its "lenient" attitude towards drug cheats, feels India's first Olympic medallist in the sport Karnam Malleswari.

Liao Hui of China claimed the gold medal in the men's 69kg category at the world weightlifting championships here on Sunday.

The International Weightlifting Federation has said it will take strong disciplinary action against the dope tainted Indian federation for the repeated offences of its lifters.

Dunedin chaperone Mima Ingram played a key role in welding the small 1948 New Zealand Olympic team into a cohesive unit.

Olympic luge slider Tony Benshoof's back is aching again, just as the international racing season is set to begin.

The University of Chicago Crime Lab and two community organizations -- including part of the city's failed Olympic bid -- are expanding a youth program to curb violence by blending counseling, martial arts and nontraditional sports, officials said Wednesday.

Marilou Dozois-Prevost is certainly no stranger to the international weightlifting competition stage.

NEW DELHI: India's national weightlifting federation committee has stepped down after taking responsibility for the rampant doping in the sport in the country, the Indian Olympic Association said Tuesday.

NEW DELHI: India's sports minister has demanded an explanation and a public apology from the weightlifting federation for another doping scandal that could result in the host nation not having any lifters competing at the 2010 Commonwealth Games.

China sent one of the strongest weightlifting teams including five Olympic champions to take part in the upcoming world championships in Goyang, South Korea.

Peter Appleby set a provincial record in the masters over age 55 class at the Otago weightlifting championships at Mosgiel on Saturday.

Bremerton's Bree Schaaf, 29, starts the World Cup bobsled season today at Park City, Utah.

LITTLEOVER'S Mark Gregory is the current British number one powerlifter and the holder of five Commonwealth records.

Listed are the October Exchange Students of the Month. Ross High School Jennifer Sweeney is the daughter of Tim and Cheryl Sweeney.

Charlottetown native Andy Oa Brien, right, has been the strength and conditioning coach for Pittsburgh Penguins captain Sidney Crosby for the past nine years.

It's a sight more familiar to British sports fans than a drunken Aussie mooning in our faces.

Clean Pull, High Clean Pull, Power Clean, Clean and Jerk, Power Snatch, Dumbbell Single Arm Power Snatch.

Steve Omischl of Kelowna, B.C. celebrates his win in the aerials competition at a freestyle FIS World Cup on January 25, 2009 at Mont Gabriel in Saint Adele, Quebec.

THE diminutive frame of 15-year-old Zoe Smith from Abbey Wood, looks at first glance, out of place among the straining hulks and clanking iron in the Europa Weightlifting Club in Fraser Road, Erith.