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British Weight Lifting Loses All Government Funding For 2020 Tokyo Olympics

British Weight Lifting was "shocked and devastated" to learn yesterday that they had lost all of their government funding for the training cycle heading into the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games.

Dec 10, 2016

Ilya Ilyin Officially Stripped Of Olympic Medals From 2008 and 2012

The IWF has released an update on 22 of the ongoing doping analysis cases from the 2008 and 2012 Olympics. For these 22 athletes, the IOC has officially ruled that they committed anti-doping rules violations and has disqualified their results and medals.

Nov 29, 2016

Romania's Gabriel Sincraian May Lose Olympic Bronze Medal Due To Doping

Romanian weightlifter Gabriel Sincraian has tested positive for a banned substance and could have his 2016 Olympic bronze medal stripped.

Oct 13, 2016

Clean Russian Weightlifter Oleg Chen Reflects on Rio Ban

The International Weightlifting Federation's (IWF) last-minute decision to ban the entire Russian team from Rio not only removed several Olympic medal contenders, but also banned weightlifters who had never tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs in or out of competition. Oleg Chen (RUS, M69) is one of those lifters.

Aug 30, 2016

#BehdadSalimi Should Be #LashaTalakhadze

The Olympics are the pinnacle of competition for many sports. With such high stakes, there's bound to be drama. And this year was no different: the 2012 Olympic champion, Behdad Salimikordasiabi of Iran, went from the highest high of setting a new world-record snatch, to the lowest low of being removed from competition by bombing out on the clean-and-jerk.

Aug 19, 2016

Kyrgyzstan's Artykov Tests Positive, Bronze Medal Stripped

Kyrgyzstan's Izzat Artykov, who beat Colombia's Luis Mosquera by 1kg for bronze in the men's 69kg category at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games, has tested positive for strychnine--a toxic pesticide known for its use as a stimulant in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His medal will be stripped.

Aug 18, 2016

Team USA in Rio

Four athletes represented the United States on the platform at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio: Morghan King, Kendrick Farris, Jenny Arthur, and Sarah Robles. Here's how it all went down!

Aug 17, 2016

How'd Armen's Rio Picks Do?

Before the Olympics began I set out my podium picks for the men's and women's competitions and now that weightlifting at Rio is completed it's time to see how my picks did.

Aug 17, 2016

Rio Wrap-Up

A recap of the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio.

Aug 17, 2016

Rio Olympics Weightlifting Live Blog Day 10

All the action from the final day of Weightlifting at the 2016 Rio Summer Olympics, featuring the Men's +105kg sessions.

Aug 16, 2016

Tatiana Kashirina Would Have Won Gold

When Russia's weightlifting team was scratched from Rio, the level of competition in Rio dropped massively. And while the IWF's decision is debatable (especially considering some banned athletes have never tested positive), the fact remains that the IOC's ban of all Russian athletes who have ever served a sanction essentially gave away Tatiana Kashirina's Olympic Gold medal.

Aug 15, 2016

Rio Olympics Weightlifting Live Blog Day 9

Stay in loop with Weightlifting at the 2016 Rio Summer Olympics, featuring the Men's 105kg sessions.

Aug 15, 2016

Sarah Robles Earns Bronze In Rio!

For the first time since 2000, an American will stand on the podium for weightlifting in the Olympics! Congrats to Sarah Robles for her incredible 6/6 performance, finishing with PRs all around: 126/160/286!

Aug 14, 2016

Rio Olympics Weightlifting Live Blog Day 8

Everything going down in Rio on the eighth day of Weightlifting at the 2016 Summer Olympics, featuring Team USA's Sarah Robles and the Women's +75kg sessions.

Aug 14, 2016

Rio Olympics Weightlifting Live Blog Day 7

All the action from the seventh day in Rio at the 2016 Summer Olympics, featuring Team USA's Kendrick Farris and the Men's 94kg sessions.

Aug 13, 2016