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Latest News articles on weightlifting at the Olympics
Olympics-From heaven to hell, Greek sport in freefall
Peeling paint flakes from Athens' Olympic park.
Town's Olympic weightlifter hopes
An Anglesey weightlifting centre hopes it could become the Olympics training base for Albanian team in the London 2012 games
College notes: Lindenwood lifters target London Olympics
Lindenwood University's best-kept athletics secret may be its Olympic weightlifting team that has produced champions at national and international levels.
N. Korea eyes seven events at London Olympics
North Korea will compete in at least seven events at this year's summer Olympics in London including women's football, the country's state news agency said on Monday.
Don't judge a book ... especially in weightlifting
If you had seen her Saturday at Moose's Tooth, eating pizza and drinking beer, you probably never would have guessed that 5-foot-2 Angela Candage-Parra had just come from a gym where she had hoisted the equivalent of a full keg of beer over her head.
Greece still reeling from Olympics
Athens – Peeling paint flakes from Athens' Olympic park. Its entrances locked, this once sparkling edifice to sporting greatness lies rotting and largely unused – maintenance costs too high for near-bankrupt Greece to operate.
From heaven to hell, Greek sport in freefall
ATHENS (Reuters) - Peeling paint flakes from Athens' Olympic park. Its entrances locked, this once sparkling edifice to sporting greatness lies rotting and largely unused -- maintenance costs too high for near-bankrupt Greece to operate. The rate of decay and dilapidation in just eight years provides a visual clue to the Greek scenario, one as effective as any economist's report or politician's ...
Weightlifting prodigy is beating much older competition
It was a long time coming for Boady Santavy -- but not that long. The 14-year-old weightlifting prodigy won a silver medal in the 62 kg weight class at the Canadian Junior Weightlifting Championships Jan.[...]
Gates County holds Polar Plunge for Special Olympics
Despite temperatures in the fifties, people in Gates Co. got together Saturday to take a chilly dip in Beaver Lake.
London 2012 Olympics: British Holocaust survivor Ben Helfgott's story inspires medal hopeful Zoe Smith
British Holocaust survivor's story inspires weightlifter Zoe Smith.