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Colombia, the strongest team entered in the Pan American Weightlifting
Championships, has withdrawn two days before the event starts because
of a dispute over "cash only" payments.
Karlos Nasar, the record-breaking teenaged weightlifter from Bulgaria,
is clear to continue on the path to the Paris 2024 Olympic Games after
being given a suspended sentence for a serious driving offence that
could have landed him in prison for three years.
Lasha Talakhadze had to fight for his sixth straight world title in a
sensational final session at the International Weightlifting
Federation World Championships in Bogotá in Colombia.
At the end of a year when weightlifting news has been dominated by
reforms, election controversies, politics and doping, the athletes
return to centre stage tomorrow at the 2022 International
Weightlifting Federation World Championships in Bogotá, Colombia.
Karlos Nasar, the 18-year-old weightlifting world champion from
Bulgaria, will begin his quest to qualify for the Paris 2024 Olympic
Games under the cloud of criminal charges that could lead to a prison
sentence.
Four Olympic champions, including three who won in Tokyo last year,
are among the 16 candidates declared eligible to stand for election to
the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) Athletes Commission
next month.
Places at the Santiago 2023 Pan American Games are available at the
Asunción 2022 South American Games, scheduled to begin tomorrow and
run until October 15.
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