Nick Varbanov, son of the one of the world's great weightlifters, is
planning a return to competition after a break of more than three
years but he has not committed to becoming an international lifter for
Canada, where he lives.
Canada's team of 17 athletes was one of the biggest at the
International Weightlifting Federation World Championships that ended
in Bogotá, Colombia on Friday - only three short of the maximum 20.
The case for weightlifting’s inclusion in the next Caribbean Games,
to be held in 2025, has been put to the Caribbean Association of
National Olympic Committees (CANOC) 20th General Assembly in Port of
Spain, Trinidad and Tobago.
Five months after three young female athletes filed complaints about the inappropriate behaviour of their weightlifting coach, the same man has been charged with the sexual assault of a different young person.