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June 4, 2009
Sports
All four of Kazakhstan’s gold medalist weightlifters from the 2012 London Olympics could have their titles stripped after testing positive for steroids in a re-analysis of samples stored from those Games.
June 16, 2016
Olympics
A report documents that the sport’s international federation hid positive doping tests and cannot account for millions in missing cash.
June 4, 2020
Weightlifter Heads-Lane Is an Olympic Hopeful, but Money Is an Increasing Concern
April 22, 2000
Business
Manufacturing: Largely responsible for the sport’s past popularity and U.S. Olympic glory, the firm is ending a long ‘slumber’ with new plans.
Aug. 12, 1998
Weightlifting: Only four years into her sport, Haworth comes to the Olympics confident she can snatch up a medal.
Sept. 21, 2000
July 1, 2019
Olympic leaders want to see the evidence a German broadcaster obtained for a documentary on doping and corruption in the troubled sport of weightlifting.
Jan. 6, 2020
There is much more at stake than titles for the weightlifters competing at the World Championships this week at the Anaheim Convention Center.
Nov. 30, 2017
The Canadian Weightlifting Federation in Ottawa wants any country producing a weightlifter with a positive drug test during the Summer Olympics banned in that sport for the next Games.
Oct. 29, 1988