Earlier this week, the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) and the International Testing Agency (ITA) opened up an anti-doping rule violation investigation of five Russian weightlifters. Just three days later the IWF announced that
Russian superheavyweight weightlifter Ruslan Albegov has been provisionally suspended from international weightlifting competition after being charged by the IWF with an anti-doping policy violation. Little information has been put forth by the IWF
After a Rio Games that saw him set a new World Record snatch but finish with a disappointing bomb out in the clean & jerk, 2012 Olympic Champion Behdad Salimi is hardly done
Last week, the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) announced it would be prohibiting all Russian weightlifters and weightlifting officials from taking part in competition at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games (which are set to
On July 24th, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced that Russian athletes will be allowed to compete subject to final approval of their International Federation (IF). Today, the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF), the
In the long awaited follow-up to last week’s McLaren Report, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced today that due to the urgency of the matter, Russian athletes will be allowed to compete subject
There’s been speculation around the weightlifting world whether 2012 Olympic Champion Behdad Salimi could return from knee surgery in time for the 2016 Rio Olympics. Salimi — who injured his knee on a 262kg
International weightlifting’s superheavyweight category has been packed with news the last couple years, from Behdad Salimi‘s knee injury to Aleksey Lovchev‘s clean & jerk World Record (and subsequent sanction for doping). So it’s been
