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    BOC names new board of directors

    THE Bahrain Olympic Committee's (BOC) new board of directors was announced during the ordinary meeting of the general assembly held at the National Stadium's conference hall in Riffa. The meeting, chaired by present president Shaikh Isa bin Rashid Al Khalifa, saw 11 of Bahrain's senior sports officials vie for seven posts within the committee board for the next three years. Bahrain Royal Equestrian and Endurance Federation (Breef) president Shaikh Nasser bin Hamad Al Khalifa had already won the majority of votes to become the next BOC president. Among the candidates were officials representing the sports associations of soccer, tennis, swimming, maritime sports, athletics, cycling, weightlifting and bodybuilding, handball, volleyball, equestrian and endurance, martial arts and basketball. Committee Winning posts at the new committee board include Bahrain Basketball Association president Adel Al Assomi (16 votes), Bahrain Football Association presidnt Shaikh Salman bin Ibrahim Al Khalifa (15) and president of the Bahrain Weightlifting and Bodybuilding Association Shaikh Abdulla bin Rashid Al Khalifa (13). Other members are Bahrain Cycling Association president Shaikh Khalid bin Hamad Al Khalifa (13), Bahrain Handball Association president Ali Isa (13), Dawood Hussain (11) and Jehad Khalfan

    Weightlifters ‘lack funds to succeed’

    As the country's top Olympic event, weightlifters should qualify for US$90,000 sponsorship each year, head of the weightlifting department of national Sports Administration of Vietnam, Do Dinh Khang said. However the team received far less than it needed, he said. "Of the $90,000 budget for last year's tournaments for weightlifting and bodybuilding, we saved $50,000 for weightlifting, of which $40,000 was spent on Hoang Anh Tuan." At last year's Olympic Games in Beijing, Tuan took silver medal in the men's 56kg class - the country's only medal of the games, and only its second in history. At the Sydney Olympics in 2000, Tran Hieu Ngan took silver medal in taekwondo. However, Khang said this year, the cash-strapped weightlifting team would not be able to travel abroad for much-needed training. "This year the sport will face a lack of funds for sending athletes overseas for training and competition. It means, our athletes will have little chance against top athletes in the world," Khang said. "We have asked the national Sports Administration to provide athletes with a special nutritional regime to help them reach their top physical condition." Khang says weightlifting does not receive the sponsorship other sports such as football, volleyball, swimming and badminton do. Despite poor funding, weightlifters have continued to win honours in regional and world events.  

    Olympian Maryse Turcotte represented IWF at the IOC Athletes Forum

    Former Olympian and World Championship medallist Canadian Maryse Turcotte attended the 4th International Athletes Forum organised under the auspices of the IOC in Marrakesh, Morocco, representing the International Weightlifting Federation. Here is her short report after the Forum:"As the IWF athletes' representative at the 4th  IOC International Athletes Forum, I was involved in the working group "Health protection in training and competition". The working group I was involved in was very important in my opinion for two reasons. The first is directly linked to my recent retirement from the sport: I am now able to bring some reflexions about the improvement of athletes' health during their career. The second touches my recent diplomation in Medicine: as a physician I think it is important to offer counseling and support to high level athletes. I hope that my comments during the discussions contributed to build final recommendations for IOC leaders.The Hon. Dr. Jacques Rogge, President of the IOC, was also present for the final conclusions and recommendations."

    Sarah Robles becomes a heavyweight in weightlifting

    When Sarah Robles transferred from Alabama to Arizona State to be a redshirt thrower on the track team, she found herself looking for a place to lift in the week before the school's athletic facilities reopened. Robles looked on USA Weightlifting's Web site to find a club in the area and wound up with Joe Micela at his Performance One Advanced Sports Training in Mesa, Ariz. It was in early January 2008 when she met Micela, who suggested Robles try a local weightlifting competition four days later. She did well enough to qualify for the junior national championships. That was the beginning of the end for her throwing and the start of a weightlifting career in which Robles' progress has been so fast she has legitimate aspirations at making the 2012 Olympic team in the super-heavyweight category. That is the weight class in which former child prodigy lifter Cheryl Haworth, currently recovering from an injury, has been in a class by herself among U.S. women for a decade. Haworth, 26, won an Olympic bronze medal in 2000 and followed it with sixth places in 2004 and 2008. "If Sarah had started when she was 12 or 14, she could be Cheryl-or close to it," Micela said. Barely six months after the local competition, Robles had finished second in the World Junior Championships and decided to leave Arizona State to train and study at the U.S. Olympic Education Center at Northern Michigan University. Now the 20-year-old from San Jacinto, Calif., wants to move again, and she hopes her results in the Pan American Weightlifting Championships will earn her a place at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs. No U.S. women won medals but two men, Norik Vardanian of Moorpark, Calif., (207-pound class) and Patrick Judge of Sarasota, Fla., (super-heavyweight) took overall bronzes in the four-day Pan Am event that ended Sunday at UIC. Robles was 2 kg short of a medal in clean-and-jerk and some 6 kg shy of an overall medal. "My Olympic lifts are still catching up to my strength," Robles said. "But I'm new to the sport." "For someone in their 20s to make that kind of improvement is rare," Micela said. "But Sarah is a natural athlete."

    Goyang City Mayor visits IWF office

    Mr. Kang Hyun Suk, Mayor of Goyang City, host of the 2009 World Championships visited the IWF Secretariat at Budapest with his delegation. Dr. Tamás Aján, IWF President and members of the IWF Secretariat met the Goyang delegation and discussed the preparation of the 2009 Goyang World Championships. Further members of the delegation were Mr. Rock Huh, Vice President KWF, Mr. Sang-Hoe Gu, Manager and Mr. Kyu-Jin Kim, Chief of Administrative Support Team of the 2009 World Championships Organising Committee. Goyang City and the Korean Weightlifting Federation are making great efforts to host perfect and memorable World Championships in November this year.