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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.
Tuesday, 16 March 2021 The African Weightlifting Championships have been postponed again less than three weeks before they were due to start, adding further confusion to the qualifying programme for the delayed Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. Madagascar will still be the host nation but the Championships will now take place during May - probably in the week between 15 to 22 - rather than April 2 to 7 as planned. The International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) is faced with a further challenge as it attempts to adapt the qualifying system to make it fair for all athletes. Most weightlifters around...
Friday, 12 March 2021 A South African weightlifter’s chance of realising a lifelong dream of competing at the Olympic Games could be thwarted by coronavirus-related travel restrictions. The plight of Mona Pretorius highlights the difficulties faced by athletes who cannot travel to the African Championships due to be held in Madagascar in three weeks’ time. At least one other African hopeful for the rearranged Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, Roilya Ranaivosoa of Mauritius, is believed to be unable to travel. The news from Pretorius' travel agent is that flights to Madagascar are banned from 44 ...