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Bucharest junior WC, men 85 kg, Super performance of Zielinski brothers

Albanian Tabaku was lucky enough to remain in competititon with 166 kg snatch for his third trial. Polish Adrian Zielinski was ahead of him by 3 kg and Russian Aukadov was behind him by another 3 kg. However, clean and jerk brought a new protagonist into the play. Tomasz Zielinski lifted 201kg. There was no succesful answer for this attempt to surpass.  This lift resulted him a gold in clean and jerk and a bronze in total. Adrian Zielinski was again stronger than Tabaku by 3 kg in clean and jerk as well however the Albanian tried to focus all his strength on his last attempt to change the final result. He was not able to stop Adrian Zielinski winning the gold in total by 368 kg. Tabaku had a significant progress comparing to  his Cali achievement by 5th place and 328 kg a year ago. This year he lifted 34 kg more silver medal. At last year's junior World championships Zielinski brother touched bottom by unsuccesful lifts. Tomasz was eliminated in 77 kg clean and jerk, while Adrian had zero total failing all his clean and jerk attempts in 85 kg. This year they had the top positions in clean and jerk collecting gold and silver medal.

Bucharest Junior WC, women 69 kg, Chinese Li six good attempts, three gold medals

The opening attempts of both Chinese and Colombian lifters were succesful, but finally Colombian Solis made a mistake in snatch and lost to Li Changying.The Chinese found herself on the lead (111 kg). Olympic fourth placed Solis had succesful movements in clean and jerk (130 kg, 136 kg) Li finally jerked 137 kg. Solis was encouraged to try 142 kg for the gold but she was not strong enough for that weight. In this way Solis had to be satisfied with 2nd place again like a year ago when she lost to Egyptian Khalil at Cali junior WC. She had a tremendous development during the year as improved 10 kg.There was an interesting dual between Russian Zubova sisters. Maria won bronze medal and Olga became fourth after she withdrew from her last attempt. Last year bronze medallist Kim (KOR) had very poor performance with just opening attempts in snatch and clean and jerk. She had only position No 6 by3 kg less total result than a year before.

Dominican weightlifter’s "B" sample negative

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) - The Dominican Olympic Committee has cleared weightlifter Yudelquis Contreras of doping allegations after her "B" sample came back negative. Contreras was one of six athletes (and the only weightlifter) competing at last year's Beijing Olympics who had tested positive for CERA, an advanced version of the blood-boosting drug EPO, during the re-analysis of some samples by the IOC. The Dominican Olympic Committee said Wednesday her "B" sample did not show any traces of the drug. IOC spokesman Mark Adams confirmed that the "B" sample was negative, but that the IOC was waiting for a full report from the doping lab before commenting further on the case. Contreras finished fifth in the 53-kilogram category in Beijing. She could have faced a two-year suspension.

Dominican weightlifter’s “B” sample negative

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) - The Dominican Olympic Committee has cleared weightlifter Yudelquis Contreras of doping allegations after her "B" sample came back negative. Contreras was one of six athletes (and the only weightlifter) competing at last year's Beijing Olympics who had tested positive for CERA, an advanced version of the blood-boosting drug EPO, during the re-analysis of some samples by the IOC. The Dominican Olympic Committee said Wednesday her "B" sample did not show any traces of the drug. IOC spokesman Mark Adams confirmed that the "B" sample was negative, but that the IOC was waiting for a full report from the doping lab before commenting further on the case. Contreras finished fifth in the 53-kilogram category in Beijing. She could have faced a two-year suspension.

2010 Asian Games weightlifting Venue

Venue:  Dongguan Gymnasium Sport(s) Weightlifting Seating Capacity 4,340 Construction Status Renovated or Extended Under Construction Distance from the Asian Games Town (km) 64.6

2016 Olympic Bid Cities briefing IOC Members in Lausanne

The four candidate cities bidding to host the Games of the XXXI Olympiad in 2016 - Chicago (USA), Tokyo (Japan), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) and Madrid (Spain)  - are all at the Olympic Museum in Lausanne (Switzerland) on 17th and 18th June to give a technical briefing to the 93 members of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), who are present for the event. The first day's presentations, which resulted in dozens of detailed questions, were followed on the next day by an opportunity for members to ask more follow-up questions to each city about their projects, as well as giving the media an opportunity to meet with each of the Candidate Cities. IOC President Jacques Rogge said, "Since my election in 2001, we have been making a concerted effort at the IOC to improve our transfer of knowledge capacities and to ensure that the evaluation process continues to be clear and offers criteria from which the cities can be evaluated. The fact that we have four cities with very strong projects bidding for the 2016 Games is testament to that work and to the success of recent editions of the Games. As part of the natural evolution of our effort, today's briefings are allowing us to continue to bring more transparency, fairness and professionalism to the evaluation process, which has been underlined by the active participation of my fellow members." The briefings come closely on the heels of the four-day visits of the IOC's Evaluation Commission, led by IOC Member Nawal El Moutawakel, to each of the Candidate Cities. The Commission is now in the process of producing its evaluation report, which will be distributed to the IOC members no later than one month before election day. The final vote will be held in Copenhagen (Denmark) on 2nd October 2009. IOC Member and IWF President Dr. Tamás Aján participated in the briefing meetings held at the Olympic Museum in Lausanne.