Olympic champion Lyu suspended after positive doping test

IMAGE: Xiaojun Lyu became the oldest man to win Olympic gold in weightlifting when he claimed the 81kg title in Tokyo last year. Photograph: Edgard Garrido/Reuters China's three-times Olympic......

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.'......

Probed for corruption, world weightlifting chief resigns

Tamas Ajan has resigned as president of the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) while an investigation into alleged corruption is ongoing, the governing body said in a statement on......