Weightlifting 2021 Discussion Thread

[intoronto 5,638]

Never understood why the IOC can't overtake running weightlifting for 2024 like it did with boxing for 2020

[George_D 1,205]

1 hour ago, intoronto said:

Never understood why the IOC can't overtake running weightlifting for 2024 like it did with boxing for 2020

and wrestling for 2016

[Griff88 1,952]

 

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[dcro 10,210]

On 09/08/2021 at 15:39, intoronto said:

Never understood why the IOC can't overtake running weightlifting for 2024 like it did with boxing for 2020

Probably because corrupted judging seems salvagable when compared to the outrageous doping tradition of weightlifting...

[George_D 1,205]

IWF says circulated a revised version of its proposed Constitution

 

https://iwf.sport/2021/08/17/iwf-eb-approves-draft-constitution-ahead-of-key-congress/

[NearPup 3,045]

 The situation looks really dire

 

https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1112183/weightlifting-doomed-says-davies

[phelps 7,674]

is it me, or there's a strong English-speaking bunch of people trying to get the full command on the "new" weightlifting world, so to get as many free passes on doping as the old guard have (and as they have now in sports like swimming, athletics, cycling)? 

 

what they're doing only looks a classic West vs East ideological and political battle, not just something "for the good of the sport"...

 

I don't think Miss Davies and her friends are totally "beyond any reasonable suspicion" too, when they try to manouvre the weightlifting politics for the next few years...

[De_Gambassi 1,223]

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"I had the opportunity to speak with Mr Bach in Tokyo."

 

"He told me that there is no way weightlifting will stay in the Games in its current form. He indicated that he wants weightlifting in the Olympics, but not in the state it is in now."

[MHSN 3,619]

this sounds a bit positive

 

https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1112328/weightlifting-congress-vote

[thepharoah 2,405]

according to our lifter Mohamed ihab , Congress has anonymously agreed to keep Weightlifting in Olympic Program , WCH has been rescheduled in December in Uzbekistan instead of Peru and new Olympic weights will be decided next year with start of Olympic qualifications from 2022-2024