Weightlifting 2021 Discussion Thread

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On 8/9/2021 at 10:41 AM, George_D said:

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Heavy lifting finally completed as IWF overwhelmingly passes new weightlifting constitution

August 30, 2021

Pyrros Dimas tells Around the Rings “I see happy faces, happy people and I hope everything will be the same from here to the future.”

 

The International Weightlifting Federation overwhelmingly approves a new constitution just days before the IOC Executive Board is to meet about the future of the sport in the Olympics.

The vote came on Sunday at a second IWF Constitutional Congress being held in Doha, Qatar. The first one in late June ended with no agreement.

 

Pyrros Dimas, the legendary Greek weightlifter who is a member of the IWF Executive Board, tells Around the Rings “we’ve voted with 93.3 percent, a huge percentage, this is for me a victory for our sport. I was very worried before I came here but I see people who support our sport and they decide to keep our sport in the Olympics”.

When asked if the new constitution would pass muster with the IOC, Dimas says “”I think yes because we did what the IOC wants. And we have nothing to be afraid about that.”

The IOC Executive Board is scheduled to meet on Sept. 8. At the last IOC Session in Tokyo, the EB was given powers to suspend a federation from participating in an Olympics. The IOC has repeatedly warned the IWF that the sport could lose its place at Paris 2024 if specific criteria for internal governance reform and anti-doping measures weren’t implemented in a new constitution.

While the 156-page constitution has been approved, there are five amendments to the document that still need to be discussed and decided. This effort will likely run into Monday.

After the amendments are handled, the IWF Executive Board is scheduled to meet to discuss specifics including when and where the delayed Electoral Congress will be held.

Dimas says that after the EB meeting is completed, the IWF will publish the new constitution in its entirety.

But he says the hardest part of the process – the approval of the new constitution – has been accomplished.

“I’m seeing all this, what’s happened today here very positive and I see happy faces, happy people and I hope everything will be the same from here to the future.”

Source: Gerard Farek – Around the Ring

https://iwf.sport/2021/08/30/heavy-lifting-finally-completed-as-iwf-overwhelmingly-passes-new-weightlifting-constitution/

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2017 Asian champion Albert Linder of Kazakhstan has died, aged 25.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Linder

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231 weightlifters from 52 competing (including ):

 

• 20 athletes from:
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Per continents:

• 43% of participants (98 athletes from 23 counties) = Europe
• 32% of participants (75 athletes from 17 countries) = Asia
• 20% of participants (47 athletes from 8 countries) = Pan Americas
• 5% of participants (11 athletes from 4 countries) = Africa
• 0 = Oceania
   

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2021 European Junior & U23 Weightlifting Championships results

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_European_Junior_%26_U23_Weightlifting_Championships

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winners in total

 

Men
–49 kg: Oleg Prokopev (188kg)

 

Women
–40 kg: Ezgi Kılıç (125kg)

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Men
–55 kg: Patsaphong Thongsuk (223kg)

–61 kg: Hampton Morris (276kg)

 

 

Women
–40 kg: Rose Jean Ramos (147kg)

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Men
–67 kg: Patsaphong Thongsuk (288kg)

 

 

Women
–49 kg: Milana Kutiakina (166kg)
–55 kg: Katharine Estep (198kg)

[thiago_simoes 1,423]

This is a reminder that every medal counts.  Gilberto Lemus crying on the podium at the 2021 Pan American Weightlifting Championships after getting a C&J medal. This is his first medal at the Pan Am Championships after 10 years trying hard to get one.

 

[thiago_simoes 1,423]

I think this is the best place for me to ask this question, instead of posting on the retirements thread.

According to Brazilian news, Fernando Reis informed the IWF that he will retire from the sport. The news mention that this will exempt him from taking any more anti-doping tests but, and that this is not set in stone because he can still revert this decision and resume training.

My question is: is this a common "tactic" for lifters to skip being tested? Is this something that other lifters usually do when they want to take a break and resume training later? I don't think Reis will be back, especially because he's 31 now and I expect his ban to last for at least 4 years, and I simply don't see how he could go back to the sport at 35/36. But I'm still curious about whether this is commonly used by athletes for not being tested or not.