World Weightlifting 2008/2 Special Pre-Olympic issue has appeared.
World Weightlifting 2008/2 Special Pre-Olympic issue has
No answer from 18 countries out of 87!
No answer from 18 countries out of 85!IWF Media office leads a campaign to collect all the possible information on 85 participating nations' athletes for media use during the Games. All countries were requested to complete the given questionnary on their lifter/s/. Thanks to those from 69 countries taking this "game" seriously, understanding how important task it is to provide the international media with correct datas. The other 18 federations were not interested in achieving this goal and in this way we have to miss 45 athletes biographical datas. Europe/4/: Cyprus, Germany, Latvia, Moldova, Asia/6/: Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, Malaysia, Mongolia, Turkmenistan, Democratic People's Republic of KoreaAmerica/5/: Bolivia, Brasil, Chile, Cuba, Guatemala,Africa/3/: Algeria, Egypt, Nigeria, We got them all from Oceania /12
Important Note on Beijing Weightlifting Technical Congress
We would like to remind all NFs and NOCs representatives that the Technical Congress will be held at 15:00 on 7 August 2008 in the Competition Venue. The Verification of Final entries will be held prior to the Congress, starting at 14:00 at the same location. As the deadline of entries (Sport Entry Form) expired on 23 July 2008, please note the following regarding the Verification: The athletes’ data should be checked and signed No athlete can be changed / replaced No bodyweight category can be changed Entry Totals may be corrected considering that 15 / 20 kg rule will be implemented during the
All analysis results returned negative from Junior Worlds in Cali
The doping controls of the 2008 Junior World Weightlifting Championships held in Cali, Colombia are now complete. The IOC accredited laboratory (Cologne) reported all tests as negative. Of the 230 participating competitors the IWF subjected 35% to the testing and all proved to be
Nauru’s weightlifting President unable to attend Olympics because of state visit to Taiwan.
Three-times Olympic weightlifter and President of Nauru, *Marcus Stephen* has agreed to abandon plans to attend the Beijing Olympics in order to make a state visit to Taiwan next week. Marcus Stephen is the only triple Olympian President of State in the world.He said while he was extremely disappointed he would not be at the Olympics as president of the Oceania Weightlifting Federation, he believed it was important to further progress Nauru's interests with Taiwan as a major donor country."We have a number of projects on the board involving Taiwan, and I see the state visit as a very good opportunity to move them further towards reality. "I think it is important that the new Taiwanese head of state, President Ma, is fully briefed on certain projects involving Nauru's economic future, which were commenced with his predecessor and the state visit will enable me to explain their importance to Nauru face to face."Naturally, I am extremely disappointed that the state visit coincides with the Olympics, but I believe it is a matter of getting our priorities right. "President Stephen said as an Olympics veteran, he would have enjoyed the opportunity to be in Beijing, but he believed it would have been an act of selfishness on his part if he declined Taiwan's invitation in order to attend the Olympics."The State Visit was supposed to have taken place earlier this year, but the political instability and a looming general election prevented that from happening at that time. This visit will be a first for the Presidents of both countries. Nauru will be the first country to be hosted by the new President," he
85 countries’ lifters to compete in Beijing
Weightlifting will line up a record number of nations at the Beijing Olympic Games: 85. /The previous record was set up in Atlanta by 77 nations/ The following countries will send weightlifters for the first time to the Olympic Games: - from Africa: RSA (South Africa) - from Asia: KSA (Saudi Arabia), TJK (Tajikistan), VIE (Vietnam) - from Europe: CYP (Cyprus) - from Oceania: TUV (Tuvalu) After Beijing, the current number of nations - 137 - having participated in OG in weightlifting will rise to
