The 2017 World Champion from Egypt Mohammed Ehab announced his retirement from the sport of weightlifting yesterday on the Egyptian news site ahramonline. After five additional doping bans from Egypt were announced yesterday, including that of the Olympic bronze medalist Sara Ahmed, Ehab decided to put his career to an end. Here’s why: On the …
The entire Egypt team has been withdrawn from the 2019 World Weightlifting Championships after a two-year national suspension was imposed by the IWF. The suspension is the result of a string of anti-doping violations in 2016. It has only come into force now because the fact that several of the athletes involved were minors has …
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The IWF has released the latest version of the anti-doping violation counts for nations since 2008. This sets restrictions on the maximum number of athletes these nations can qualify for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. See our qualifying guide for more details. Nations with fewer than ten anti-doping violations since July 2008 can qualify a maximum …
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The IWF posted this video highlighting some of the more unusual exercises that 2017 -77 world champion Mohamed Ehab, from Egypt, uses in his training. As well as his World Championship gold, Ehab has three silvers (2014, 2015, 2018) and an Olympic bronze (2016), so it might just be worth taking this stuff seriously…