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USA Lifters To Compete At British International Open

Team USA will bring several athletes over to the UK in June for the British International Open, a bronze-level Olympic qualifier. The competition runs from 7th to 9th June 2019 and is being run in conjunction with the British Championships. As a bronze-level event, competitors will earn Robi points towards Olympic qualification. See our Olympic …

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Kazakhstan to Beg IOC to Allow Them More 2020 Slots

InsideTheGames are reporting that Kazakhstan weightlifting officials will meet with representatives of the International Olympic Committee to ask them to allow additional Kazakh weightlifters to compete at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Kazakhstan is currently limited to a maximum of just one male and one female weightlifter in Tokyo due to their poor anti-doping record. See …

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Kazakhstan Drops Challenge to Tokyo 2020 Qualification System

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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