Weightlifting isn’t exactly a spectator’s sport. Olympic lifting competitions typically move at a near-glacial pace, with minutes of downtime furnishing seconds of exhilaration on the platform. It’s the athletes who draw the crowds.
Back in early December, news broke that British weightlifter Sonny Webster had tested positive for Ostarine. This is a substance banned by the World Anti Doping Agency (WADA) and is known as a
Yesterday afternoon, reports surfaced that British weightlifter Sonny Webster had tested positive for Ostarine. This substance is one of many on the World Anti Doping Agency’s (WADA) Prohibited List, and is what’s known
Halloween is right around the corner, which means two things. One, it’s the only time of year you get a pass for dressing up and acting ridiculous. If you do this any other
After a tough week, life just got a little easier for British Weight Lifting. On December 9, the United Kingdom governmental body, UK Sport, announced that they were withdrawing all of their funding for British
What fun it is to lift and snatch, a sleighing song tonight! Oh! Twenty-two-year-old British weightlifter Sonny Webster, the only British male to compete this year at the Rio Olympic games, is bringing his
In what may come as a stunning move to some weightlifting fans, Britain’s Olympic weightlifting team has lost all of their government funding for their Tokyo 2020 training cycle. “We are shocked and
Olympic weightlifting requires an incredible amount of technique, strength, flexibility, agility, balance, focus, and determination. There’s a lot to work on — and that means that getting better usually means learning from a lot of mistakes. We
At 22 years old, British weightlifter Sonny Webster is on a roll. Less than two months after his first Olympic Games, Webster — the lone British male to compete in weightlifting in Rio
