InsideTheGames has reported that the Kazakhstan Weightlifting Federation has agreed not to continue its opposition to the Olympic weightlifting qualification system introduced in 2018. It had been pursuing an appeal at the Court of Arbitration for Sport. As we explain in our Tokyo 2020 Qualification Guide, the new system was partly designed to make it …
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The Indian Weightlifting Federation is poised to take action against three state weightlifting federations following a string of drug test failures at national competitions. The Punjab, Haryana and Karnataka weightlifting federations face a ban after eight athletes tested positive for drugs at the Indian Youth and Junior National Championships in December 2018. Two further failed …
The full judgement of UK Anti-Doping that led to Sonny Webster’s four-year ban being extended by three additional years has been published. UKAD ruled that Webster had breached the Prohibited Association rule by coaching three athletes who were registered with British Weightlifting. The coaching is described in the judgement as a mixture of online programming, …
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A statement by the Thai Amateur Weightlifting Association (included at the bottom of this article) has revealed that eight Thai athletes who failed anti-doping tests were caught as a result of a sophisticated but time-consuming testing technique. Gas Chromatography-Combustion Isotope Ratio Analysis (GC-C-IRMS) is an extremely sensitive way to identify chemicals in complex mixtures. In …
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Thailand will be the host of the 2019 World Weightlifting Championships, despite a number of positive drugs tests that look certain to mean that no Thai athletes will be allowed to participate. The IWF announced that, following an Executive Board meeting at the Youth World Championships in Las Vegas, the World Weightlifting Championships would be …
Spanish lifter Lydia Valentin has finally got her hands on her Olympic gold medal. Valentin finished in fourth position at the competition but Svetlana Podobedova (Kazakhstan), Natalia Zabolotnaya (Russia) and Iryna Kulesha (Belarus) were all disqualified following retrospective anti-doping tests of samples taken in London. Along with Valentin’s gold, silver and bronze medals have also …
British Olympian Sonny Webster, already banned from weightlifting for four years in 2017, has been notified that he has received a new three-year ban, which will be added to the original. According to Webster’s Instagram post, the new ban is as a result of “members of British weightlifting following my online generic weightlifting program and …
