IWF misses another deadline in weightlifting elections process
The International Weightlifting Federation has missed yet another deadline in its seemingly never-ending elections process.
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The International Weightlifting Federation has missed yet another deadline in its seemingly never-ending elections process.
The weightlifting qualifying programme for Paris 2024 has finally been approved by athletes - more than a month after it should have happened.
The words of Thomas Bach, the International Olympic Committee President, will be ringing in the ears of delegates tomorrow when the International Weightlifting Federation holds its severely curtailed Congress in Uzbekistan.
Some of weightlifting’s most popular Olympic champions of the 21st century – and a 92-year-old who won Olympic gold nearly 70 years ago – have added their voices to the clarion call for the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) Executive Board to put the sport before their own interests.
Weightlifting’s warring factions are involved in a dispute that could end in legal action concerning the Acting President of the European Weightlifting Federation (EWF) Maxim Agapitov.