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Armenian Weightlifting website

www.sporting-armenia.com has published a website about Armenian Weightlifting, www.armenianweightlifting.com covering the latest news and results as it pertains to the tournaments that the Armenian Weightlifting team participates in. They will be promoting and updating the site on a regular basis, with interviews, bios, images, and videos as they become

White House Teams Up With Olympic Athletes To Fight H1N1 Flu

Next month, the 2010 Olympic Winter Games will begin in Canada. The world's top athletes will gather in Vancouver, along with spectators from across the globe.These Games inspire all Americans to be physically active and maintain a healthy lifestyle.One immediate step that you can take to protect your health is to get your H1N1 flu vaccination. Olympians, Paralympians and hopefuls training for Vancouver are doing just that.Today, athletes, coaches, and staff who are Vancouver bound are getting vaccinated against the H1N1 flu at the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colorado and the 2010 U.S. Cross Country Championships in Anchorage, Alaska. We urge all Americans to do the same and get their H1N1 vaccine.(Source: by Dr. Regina Benjamin, U.S. Surgeon

Monika Devi pleads for reduced sanction in order to prepare for CWG

Nearly 17 months after she was exonerated by a hearing panel set up by the Indian Weightlifting Federation, Monika Devi appeared before the National Anti-Doping Disciplinary panel on Tuesday and pleaded a reduced sanction so as to enable her to prepare for and compete in the Commonwealth Games in October.In a doping case that triggered a drama that unfolded on National television just before she was to take off for Beijing for the 2008 Olympics, Monika Devi was first charged with a doping violation, then reprieved and still found herself out of the Olympics since it was too late to consider her entry.The Manipuri lifter accused the Sports Authority of India (SAI) of having sabotaged her tests, was initially supported by the Indian federation, and then found herself cornered when her ‘B' sample tests at the WADA-accredited laboratory in Tokyo came back ‘positive'. (K.P. Mohan , The

New weightlifting webpage on the Internet

In Tartu (Esthonia) there is a weightlifting club called "Jõud" (Strength). They informed us that their webpage is now also in English language. It is open for all visitors. Address of the webpage is www.joud.pri.ee/index_eng.htm

Iran searching for top foreign weightlifting coach

Iran, which is one of the Asian weightlifting powerhouses, is weak at the moment. The runner-up of the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games took part with three lifters in Weightlifting World Cup in South Korea in November and got very awful results. "We have started looking for a foreign coach for the team. Iran's weightlifting has to reclaim the top position in the continent and the world." Hossein Rezazadeh said (Tehran

Diaz leads charge of RP weightlifters

With an untested bet and an ailing veteran leading the charge, the Philippines snatched four gold medals, three silvers and seven bronzes in a smashing campaign in the recent Asian youth and junior weightlifting championships in Dubai.Hidilyn Diaz, a Southeast Asian Games medalist and Olympic veteran at 18, came down with chicken pox a few days before the competition but still managed to recover in time to lead the country´s charge. She topped the snatch event for the 58kg junior division and also turned in a bronze in the total event.But it was first-timer Maybelyn Pablo who stole the thunder for Team Philippines as she captured gold medals in the 18-under snatch, clean and jerk, and total events in the 69kg youth category. (By Marc Anthony