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Photo from AFP Despite the current issues surrounding her beloved sport, Tokyo Olympics gold winner Hidilyn Diaz strongly believes that weightlifting will not be removed in the next edition in Paris. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) recently bestowed itself more power to cut sports in the

Weightlifting was marked by a series of breakthroughs at the Tokyo Olympics -- the first openly transgender athlete to compete at any Games and the Philippine's first gold ever - but recent doping scandals are clouding its outlook ahead of Paris 2024.

3 Min Read TOKYO (Reuters) - Weightlifting has been part of the programme of the Olympics since the very first event in Athens in 1896, but it is facing the risk of removal from the Games over persistent doping. FILE PHOTO: Weightlifting - Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games - Womens +90kg - Final - Carrara Sports Arena 1 - Gold Coast, Australia - April 9, 2018. Laurel Hubbard of New Zealand competes. REUTERS/Paul Childs/File Photo Scores of doping cases have been uncovered in the sport in recen...

Tuesday, 9 February 2021 Fourteen members of the troubled International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) Executive Board are on the list of candidates for next month’s elections. Seven of them are running for President, alongside four nominations who are not on the Board - former IWF Interim President Ursula Papandrea from the United States, Jinqiang Zhou of China, Stian Grimseth of Norway, and Ali Moradi of Iran. The only IWF Board members not standing for the elections, scheduled for March 2...

IWF finally confirms Romania faces outright ban from Tokyo 2020 weightlifting Tuesday, 2 February 2021 The prospect of Romania being banned outright from weightlifting at Tokyo 2020 has moved a step nearer after two anti-doping rule violations at the London 2012 Olympic Games were formally closed by the International Testing Agency (ITA). The news means that Romania’s fate is now in the hands of an independent panel which has already banned three nations outright from this years re-arranged...

Monday, 1 February 2021 The Oceania Weightlifting Federation (OWF) has responded to claims of "unethical behaviour" by dropping a proposal to involve a candidate for the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) elections in voting procedures at regional level. One official from Fiji said the Pacific island nations were being treated as "performing idiots" and, by being required to vote by email, "would be denied a secret ballot which is the cornerstone of a fair election". Another from Sam...