I am well thank you. Weightlifting remains a subject of great interest for me, but I suspect that - like most people - my interest has had to take a backseat to other things happening in the world...
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I am well thank you. Weightlifting remains a subject of great interest for me, but I suspect that - like most people - my interest has had to take a backseat to other things happening in the world...
My understanding is that the IWF Executive Board cannot enact sanctions under the Tiblisi rule until the Independent Member Federations Sanctions Panel (IMFSP) formally reports their findings and...
I completely agree.
Although the methodology isn't outlined in the report, the explanation that "...that the pattern centered, in part, on weightlifters who provided a ‘negative’ sample and then a...
Thanks for linking this. I had never read the linked report and found it genuinely shocking.
I'm interested in this line in the suspension notice (bold/italic text):
I don't think I've seen this before in WADA suspensions. Is this something that is unique to USADA or is it a new WADA...
It might be an internal suspension by the Russian authorities.
Reuters picked up the report from TASS - the Russian state news agency.
"Tatiana Kashirina, five times a world super-heavyweight champion, is the latest Russian lifter to be suspended because of evidence taken from the Moscow Laboratory during an investigation by the...
Attila is refuting the claims in the McLaren report. More details on ITG:
Former IWF director general accuses McLaren of trying to produce false evidence in weightlifting report
There has been some more high quality reporting on ITG today
"Shocking" findings of WADA investigation into weightlifting to be passed on to other sports
Transfusions, tip-offs, bribery,...
WADA weightlifting probe uncovers "dopplegangers" providing urine samples on behalf of athletes
Eighteen weightlifters from six countries are suspected of providing manipulated urine samples after...
Ursula Papandrea has resigned from the Executive Board:
https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1099636/weightlifting-papandrea-quits-board
Unbelievable. The new interim President is from Thailand.
I genuinely believe that Tokyo will be the last time the Olympic program includes Weightlifting.
Yes - that's why I edited my post within a minute of submitting it.
Edit - Just tested this and it seems that if you've got forum notifications enabled then the edits don't come through.
Interesting quote in a recent ITG article. It seems that international testing has largely been suspended due to the Coronavirus pandemic:
"In the first quarter of 2020 the International Testing...
Interesting quote in a recent ITG article:
"In the first quarter of 2020 the International Testing Agency (ITA), which has the responsibility to implement our testing regime, tested 446 samples, a...
The Egyptian Minister of Youth and Sport has appointed the former President of the Egyptian Weightlifting Federation to a senior management position in charge of Egyptian Weightlifting.
The ITG...
The IWF has invoked article 2.2 to provisionally suspend the London 2012 bronze medalist Siripuch Gulnoi (THA).
What makes this interesting is that there is no analytical result. The suspension is...
More house cleaning by the IWF.
As most of you will know, Attila was Tamás Aján's son in law and has overseen the operations of the IWF for many years. Hopefully his departure will help to bring...
Here is something that you don't see often (due to the quick elimination of HGH from the body). I am hoping that this means that analytical methods for detecting HGH doping are improving:
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Is anybody else following the developing story about the US threatening to pull its annual funding from WADA unless the US gains greater representation within the organisation?
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It might not be displaying in your browser, but the link was:
https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1095345/wada-mclaren-weightlifting-statement-2
InsideTheGames has more details about the incident.
https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1096159/bulgarian-weightlifting-great-killed
I was just working off the records as they stood when the weight classes changed in 1993. According to the dates when the records were established there were new senior men's world records...
I apologise for being a pedant about this, but at least seven senior men's world records were set between the Seoul Olympics in 1988 and the first restructuring of the weight classes in 1992.
I...
ITG posted an article about this which has more details about the undisclosed positives.