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To the memory of Stefan Polaczuk

Stefan POLACZUK, born on 14.12.1950 in Biała Podlaska. Graduated Academy of Physical Education in Biala Podlaska. Assistant of the first coach of senior national team 2005-2006. Coach of junior national team in 2007-2009. Club coach in Terespol 1978-2005. Outstanding weightlifting sportsman, who coached many top athletes of Poland, among others Adrian Zieliński and Tomasz Zieliński the medalists of 2009 World Junior Championships in Bucharest. Died after heroic fight with illness in the hospital just some days before junior world championships on 12th June

MOC to commemorate Olympic Day in Mzimba

Malawi Olympic Committee (MOC) will commemorate this year's Olympic Day in Mzimba on Saturday with a number of sporting activities. The Olympic Day is commemorated on June 23 every year worldwide among its 205 members including Malawi. It is the day which the modern Olympics were revived by Frenchman Pierre de Courbetin in 1894. A press release from MOC stated that the celebrations would be held at Chinkusa Ground with men and women football, volleyball, netball, gymnastics, weightlifting, table tennis, cycling race and the traditional and main event, 10km fun run. (BY PATRICK LUNDA)

Weightlifting exhibition in observance of Olympic Day

The Guyana Amateur Weightlifting Association (GAWA) in association with the Guyana Olympic Association (GOA) will observe Olympic Day in Guyana with a weightlifting exhibition Saturday. Lifters such as Sean Cozier, who has represented this country in numerous international competitions, along with recently crowned Schoolboys and Novices best lifter Antoine Gordon and Orwayne Cozier amongst others will be demonstrating the various lifts in the exhibition. The observance will be under the theme "Discover the Olympic movement through weightlifting" a sport which has been a part of the modern Olympic games since the first games were held back in 1896. Lifters from Guyana participated in the Games and has been a part of same from 1948 to 1956, took a break in 1960, but returned in 1964 and ‘68 before taking another sabbatical and returning in 2004, with the best performance being that of Martin Dias who competed in the 1964 Olympic Games (56 kg, 8th place 100.0, 102.5, 132.5, total

Weightlifting exhibition in observance of Olympic Day

The Guyana Amateur Weightlifting Association (GAWA) in association with the Guyana Olympic Association (GOA) will observe Olympic Day in Guyana with a weightlifting exhibition Saturday. Lifters such as Sean Cozier, who has represented this country in numerous international competitions, along with recently crowned Schoolboys and Novices best lifter Antoine Gordon and Orwayne Cozier amongst others will be demonstrating the various lifts in the exhibition. The observance will be under the theme "Discover the Olympic movement through weightlifting" a sport which has been a part of the modern Olympic games since the first games were held back in 1896. Lifters from Guyana participated in the Games and has been a part of same from 1948 to 1956, took a break in 1960, but returned in 1964 and ‘68 before taking another sabbatical and returning in 2004, with the best performance being that of Martin Dias who competed in the 1964 Olympic Games (56 kg, 8th place 100.0, 102.5, 132.5, total

GOSPER – PRAISE FOR LONDON 2012

TRANSFORMATION OF LONDON'S OLYMPIC PARK- UNMATCHED Australian Olympic official Kevan Gosper has heaped praise on London's Olympic preparations saying the transformation of a wasteland in the city's east is unmatched anywhere in Europe. Gosper told journalists at the opening of a world press briefing "the regeneration of an industrial wasteland at Stratford is very exciting and will be a lasting legacy for the British people. There has been nothing like it in Europe" he said. Stratford is the home of the Olympic Stadium, the Olympic Village and eight sporting venues including basketball, swimming, water polo, cycling velodrome, BMX and hockey. The Main Press Centre (MPC) and International Broadcast Centre (IBC) are also part of the complex. Gosper said London 2012 would be remembered for its iconic venues including tennis at Wimbledon, archery at Lord's Cricket Ground and beach volleyball at the Horse Guards Parade near Buckingham Palace. The Chief Executive of the London Organising Committee, Paul Deighton, told the group the Games are ahead of schedule and on budget. He said many of the venues in the Olympic Park were permanent "for people to use for the next fifty years". He said the Stratford would be a new London park just like the other great parks in the city". Over half of the athletes living in the Village will be able to walk to their competition venues. After the Games the Village will provide almost three thousand units where people can live in "affordable homes". People are being encouraged to cycle or walk to the events on special tracks called "greenways" Gosper said like so many others he was surprised by the achievements of the British athletes at the 2008 Beijing Games which he said was due to the generous funding of the British Government. He expected the home team to do well in 2012 because "Britain over time had introduced the majority of sports on the Olympic program". "It's not only a city which bailed the IOC out in 1908 and particularly in 1948 so soon after World War II, but it's a country and a city which has brought sport into the Olympic movement" he said.

COUNTDOWN CLOCK MARKS FINAL 100-DAY PUSH FOR TOKYO 2016

Exactly 100 days before Tokyo 2016 hopes to be given the honour of hosting the most compact, athlete-focused and sustainable Olympic and Paralympic Games in history, the Bid today unveiled a Countdown Clock in the heart of Japan's vibrant capital city. Measuring 1.8 m in height and 1.5m across, the clock was unveiled at the popular Tokyo International Forum, a state-of-the-art convention centre located in the city centre which is also a proposed Tokyo 2016 venue for weightlifting. With the popular site attracting around 4 million visitors annually, huge numbers of passionate supporters of Tokyo 2016 will be able to feel the excitement as the clock counts down. The Countdown Clock unveiling ceremony was attended by elite Japanese athletes - 2004 and 2008 Olympic gold medallist wrestler Saori Yoshida and weightlifting Olympian Hiromi Miyake.Hiromi Miyake is an extraordinary example of the 100-year Olympic legacy model that Tokyo 2016 hopes to establish for the Olympic Movement. Her father, Yoshiyuki Miyake, was a weightlifting bronze medallist at Mexico City 1968 and her uncle, Yoshinobu Miyake, was a two-time gold medallist in the sport through his success at the 1964 and 1968 Games. Hiromi Miyake said: "The Tokyo International Forum is a spectacular venue for Weightlifting, so it would be a dream for me to compete here during Tokyo 2016. This venue is wonderfully accessible, even to my house north of Tokyo, so I am personally very impressed with the compactness of Tokyo 2016 venue plan. I hope to realise a Tokyo 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games that would make the athletes, coaches and related staff truly