Olympic Weightlifting News

NEXT year promises to be a big one for Derby weightlifter Chris Freebury. The 20-year-old, from Allestree, looks set to travel to Delhi next October for the Commonwealth Games - with one eye on the Olympic Games two years later.

Here is a transcript of Governor Schwarzenegger's speech to the UN climate conference in Copenhagen.

Newly-appointed caretaker of Iran Weightlifting Federation Hossein Rezazadeh vowed he will eradicate doping in the sport in Iran.

As if prospective Olympic weightlifter Holley Mangold needed more to keep her busy at Ursuline College near Cleveland, she has joined the swim team.

At the award ceremony, NOC President expressed a hope that in 2010 Armenian sportsmen will redouble efforts in winning Olympics.

By Abhishek Roy, New Delhi, Dec 18 : Amid the sporting world raising doubts over India's ability to organise the 2010 Commonwealth Games, champion boxer Vijender Singh and tennis star Leander Paes have shown there is much more to achieve than merely cashing in on Olympic medals.

Iran has withdrawn from the Asian Youth and Junior Weightlifting Championships in the UAE.

China's Liu Xiang speaks to the media after winning the men's 110m hurdles final at the East Asian Games in Hong Kong yesterday.

Zhang Shaoling of China's Macao, Liu Chunhong of China and Lu Ying-chi of Chinese Taipei pose during the awarding ceremony of the women 69kg weightlifting match at the 2009 East Asian Games in Hong Kong, south China, Dec.

"Think of your body as the piano. You are the pianist -- we are the tuners." Those are the last words you might expect to come out of the mouths of two Olympic weightlifters turned fitness coaches.

A goatherder-turned-weightlifter set a meet record at the Southeast Asian Games yesterday to help raise Indonesia s gold tally to 11, as Thailand regained the top position with 13.

A goatherder-turned-weightlifter set a meet record at the Southeast Asian Games Friday to help raise Indonesia's gold tally to 11, as Thailand regained the top position with 13.

Changes to funding packages hit by the recession have been announced to try to bolster British medal hopes at the London 2012 Olympics.

China's star weightlifters were not at their peak at the ongoing East Asian Games in Hong Kong, but tried their best, head coach of China's national team of men's weightlifting said Wednesday.

Pak Hyon-suk, the Democratic People's Republic Korea's gold medalist at the Beijing Olympics, took gold for the 63kg category of women's weightlifting at the 5th East Asian Games in Hong Kong on Wednesday.

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It has been a long process but I think I have finally forgiven Peter Bonetti. The mental scars of a 10 year old whose world has just ended take years to heal.

Canadian speed skater Clara Hughes trains at the Olympic Oval in Calgary, Alberta on Sept 13, 2009.

China's dominant weightlifting team has followed the national table tennis side's lead in an effort to create a "happy" atmosphere on the world stage.

Seoul, Nov 25 The absence of North Korean female weightlifter Pak Hyon Suk, Olympic Champion in the 63 kilogram category, will be tinging the 6th competition day of the World Weightlifting Championship in Goynag, South Korea.