Day Off in Rio
Day off for weightlifting in Rio. Here goes a quick medal count so far. I don’t think Vasily Alexeev would have been smiling.
Day off for weightlifting in Rio. Here goes a quick medal count so far. I don’t think Vasily Alexeev would have been smiling.
Two world records and two Olympic records were set in Rio tonight in the 77KG weightclass. Xiaojun Lyu (China) snatched 177KG and Nijat Rakhimov (Kazakhstan) clean-and-jerked 214 KG. Rakhimov bypassed the current cj record...
Lightweight lifter Zhyong Shi of China won the first place in the 69KG class at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Brazil. Shi is 22 and holds the 2015 world title in this category. He...
Just look at this lineup of lifts in the Women’s 63KG weight class tonight in Rio Clean & Jerk 138 kg DENG Wei China OR Clean & Jerk 143 kg CHOE Hyo Sim North...
The weightlifting tournament for 8 Russian Olympic weightlifters banned from competing in Rio took place on Sunday, August 7, 2016 in Moscow, Russia. There were no separate weight classes competitions. All contentenders lifted...
Fantastic women lifters on the medal stands in Rio. In the 53KG class, Li Yajun, China snatched a new Olympic record (101KG). Sukanya Srisurat , Thailand also lifted new Olympic record in the snatch...
As we already wrote here, last night Qingtam Long of China won the gold Olympic medal in the 56 KG class in Rio. Besides the quality and prestige of the highest medal in Olympic...
Oscar Figueroa of Colombia won the gold medal of the 2016 Olympics in the featherweight class. This was the last competitions of Oscar. At 33 and after a very fine career in sports, he...
Grandpa Schemansky is not doing the best with health at this time, 92 years old and is in 24 hour care. Please send prayers for the Norbert Schemansk. Thanks. Stephen Petro (Flat Rock MI,...
Russian President Putin took the whole situation with doping scandal and participation of Russia in the 2016 Summer Olympics under personal control. Of course, most of the work is to be done for years...