Weightlifting

Team Nigeria have won another gold at the ongoing 22nd Commonwealth Games ongoing in Birmingham, the United Kingdom. Folashade Lawal clinched the country’s second gold medal in the competition on…

Three Olympic champion weightlifters from China and eight other medalists stand to be stripped of their titles after failing retests of their doping samples from the 2008 Olympics. The International…

Rio 2016 Olympic bronze medallist weightlifter Izzat Artykov was stripped of his medal on Thursday after being found to have the rat poison strychnine in his system. The Kyrgyz lifter…

Cypriot weightlifter Antonis Martasidis and an unnamed Greek competitor have tested positive for banned substances and have been expelled from the Rio Olympics, their teams said on Friday. Martasidis tested…