Lifter Mirabai Chanu qualifies for Tokyo Olympics

'It is positive news not just for us but for the nation. She is training in America and I am closely watching the way she is working and I have no doubt that she will fight for a gold medal.'......

Cleared of doping Chanu to finally get Arjuna award

IMAGE: International Weightlifting Federation dropped the doping charge against Sanjita Chanu due to ‘non-conformities’ in the handling of her sample last month. Photograph: Athit......

WADA to investigate weightlifting doping allegations

WADA to investigate IWF doping allegations IMAGE: IWF had been plagued by decades of corruption and also discovered the doping infractions. Photograph: Christinne Muschi/Reuters The World......

Weightlifting could lose spot in Olympics: IOC

IMAGE: IOC President Thomas Bach added that the IOC would also not grant any accreditation for the Tokyo Olympics next year to any IWF official implicated by the ongoing inquiry. Photograph:......

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.'......