Olympian Mirabai's future hangs in balance

IWF scraps her weight category; Olympic weight category yet to be known. IMAGE: Mirabai Chanu had won a silver medal at the 2021 Tokyo Olympics in 49 kg category. Photograph: Amanda......

Russia faces another Rio ban over dope tests

IMAGE: Tatiana Kashirina of Russia reacts after competing in the women's +75kg weight class during the 2015 International Weightlifting Federation World Championships. Photograph: Scott......

Indian Weightlifting Federation banned

The Indian Weightlifting Federation has been banned for the second time in seven months of coming out of a year's suspension and its embarrassed officials are unable to explain the utter......

Weightlifting federation probe reveals corruption, doping cover-ups

'I found an organisation that had been subject for close to half a century to an autocratic leader who dictated through various control mechanisms everything that occurred within the organisation.'......

Bulgaria weightlifters handed Rio Olympics ban for widespread doping

IMAGE: Bulgaria’s Ivan Markov lifts in the clean & jerk men's 85 kg Group A competition during the IWF World Championships 2013, in Wroclaw on October 25, 2013. Photograph: Adam......