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Anti-Doping Norway’s newsletter

Anti-Doping Norway believes that the sharing of knowledge and experience across borders contributes in improving and strengthening the fight against doping in sport. Therefore, through this newsletter, we wish to share some of our activities with our anti-doping friends throughout the world. In this way, we can learn form each other and make each other better. (Anti-Doping Norway)You can read pdf Frech, Spanish and Russian as

World Weightlifting’s latest issue has appeared!

World Weightlifting's latest issue has appeared! In the 2009/1 edition readers can find exclusive interviews with IWF President and newly elected General Secretary. Further articles: Reports on European and Asian Championships. Confessions of a Queen - interview with Liu Chunhong. The Austrian connection at the

The Slovak Olympic Committee on its website reported that Ondrej Hekel passed away today in Bratislava at age of 65.

The Slovak Olympic Committee on its website reported that Ondrej Hekel passed away today in Bratislava at age of 65. He was born 16. 02. 1944. Wearing the national colours of Czechoslovakia he participated in three Olympic Games:1968 Mexico City Lightweight 9th 390 kg (120, 120, 150)1972 Munich Middleweight 4th 462.5 kg (150, 142, 5 - highest in snatch, 170)1976 Montreal Middleweight 7th  312.5 kg (140, 172.5)He was 3rd in the 1971 European Championships Middleweight class (452.5

A NEW APPROACH TO MEASURE WEIGHTLIFTING PERFORMANCE

A NEW APPROACH TO MEASURE WEIGHTLIFTING PERFORMANCE "INTRODUCING AN ACCELEROMETER"   Kimi Sato, MS, CSCS, USAW Certified Sport Performance CoachPhD Candidate, University of Northern Colorado Paul Fleschler, MSUSAW resident Coach at CSOTC Bill Sands, PhD, FACSM, C-ARS, NR/WEMTPerformance Services, Recovery Center at CSOTC In this article, we will introduce a new approach to measure weightlifting performance based on barbell acceleration factor. Unlike any scientific laboratory setting, this test can be conducted during the training session with immediate feedback to coaches and athletes. The instruments are relatively inexpensive and easy to operate. We will discuss the usefulness of this approach for both coaches and athletes. Through the extensive pilot testing, we found that this acceleration analysis leads to possible technical assessment as well as detecting fatigue over a single training session. Even though the barbell acceleration is NOT a well-analyzed biomechanical variable in the scientific research of weightlifting, the acceleration is a vital component of measuring force production. This approach can be beneficial for weightlifters as well as other athletes who utilize Olympic weightlifting as a part of strength and conditioning module. Please click on the following link:USAW_Newsletter_Part_I  

Congratulation to Olympic Silver Medallist Ozkan

Olympic silver medallist (48 kg)Turkish Ozkan Sibel (born March 3, 1988) got married to Ömer Öz who is also a weightlifter. The husband's best performances are silver or bronze medals in European Cadett (1999 Italy, 2000 Slovakıa, 2001 Austria) and World Junior (2002 Czech Rep.) Championships. They married on July 11 2009 and they are living in Ankara. A lot of celebrities of Turkish sports life were present at their wedding

Bucharest Laboratory Becomes Thirty-Fifth WADA Accredited Laboratory

The World Anti-Doping Agency's (WADA) Executive Committee approved the accreditation of a new laboratory for anti-doping analysis in Bucharest, Romania. The Romanian laboratory successfully completed the requirements of WADA's accreditation process, which started in early 2008. The objective of this accreditation process is to ensure that candidate laboratories meet the highest quality standards. This includes site visits, participation in WADA's External Quality Assessment Scheme monitored by the Agency's Laboratory Working Committee, and ISO assessment by independent accreditation bodies. The Bucharest laboratory thus becomes the 35th laboratory in the world currently accredited by WADA. "We are pleased to welcome the Bucharest laboratory to the network of WADA accredited laboratories," said WADA's President John Fahey. "This laboratory will play an important role by fulfilling the needs for anti-doping analysis capacities in a region that was not previously serviced." The anti-doping laboratory in Almaty, Kazakhstan, is currently in the final stage of the WADA laboratory accreditation process. In addition, in May of this year, WADA's Executive Committee accepted three additional laboratories as potential candidates, respectively in Buenos Aires, Argentina; Doha, Qatar; and Mexico City. These laboratories should enter WADA's probationary accreditation process later this year or next year.