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Paris 2024 Olympics: Only 5 Weight Classes per Gender, 120 Athletes Total

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The IOC just announced the quota changes for weightlifting in the Paris 2024 Olympic games. IF weightlifting is included—and this is not certain— weightlifting will be reduced to: New Quota: 120, (was 260 in Rio, will be 196 in Tokyo) Reduction in weight classes from 7 to 5 per gender. Kit McConnell, IOC Sports Director: […]

WADA Weightlifting Investigation – Corruption, Urine Substitution & More

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Wada just released a new, and still ongoing, investigation into weightlifting. Provisional findings (PDF) here. Launched in August 2017, WADA I&I’s investigation into weightlifting has four pillars, namely: Operation Outreach, looking into claims that a high-ranking member of the IWF was paid to promote Russian interests and to protect Russian athletes from detection; Operation Heir, […]

IWF Exectutive Board ousts Ursula Papandrea as IWF President

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Update 14.10.2020: USA Weightlifting asks all member federations to sign a letter demanding an extraordinary congress by the end of November. Update 14.10.2020: IWF’s empty response. Update 14.10.2020: IOC’s statement. [The IOC] would reserve the right to take further measures depending on any future developments, including, but not limited to, a review of the place […]

McLaren Report on International Weightlifting Federation

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Update: We recorded a podcast episode about the findings of the report. Listen below. The McLaren Weightlifting Investigation press conference was this morning and it was just about as damning and explosive as possible. The investigators found evidence of a “dysfunctional organization” that was intentionally designed for former IWF President Tamas Ajan to maintain control. […]

IWF Releases Revised Tokyo Olympics Qualification System

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Meanwhile in Lausanne … The IWF released the revised Tokyo 2020 qualification guidelines for weightlifting. Read the ATG Guide here. Biggest Change: They added a new qualification period. All weightlifters are required to compete at least once during that time New Qualification Period: 1 October 2020 and 30 April 2021 PDF: Olympic Qualification System for […]

NEW Tokyo Olympic Games Qualification System Principles

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The IOC approved the modified Qualification System Principles, which you can read in full below. That’s the IOC’s document to all international federations. It is not a revised Weightlifting qualification. See the bolded parts which are new. Download the PDF here. If we are reading all this correctly it looks like the qualification period will […]

IWF provisionally suspends Oleg Chen, Ruslan Albegov, Egor Klimonov, Tima Turieva and David Bedzhanyan

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Meanwhile in Anti Doping News… Based on “evidence arising from the investigations conducted by Prof. McLaren and the WADA Intelligence & Investigations department”, the IWF announced that it opened investigations against Oleg Chen, Ruslan Albegov, Egor Klimonov, Tima Turieva and David Bedzhanyan. Here are the public disclosures. Update 17.08.2019: The latest public disclosure add Dmitry […]

Update on Olympic Quotas due to Doping Violations

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As you have read in the ATG Guide to Olympic Qualification: Countries whose athletes have consistently been popped will lose spots. Or, framed another way, all countries (NOC/MF) start with two spots (one man, one woman) and countries with better WADA records earn more spots (subject to the IWF Anti-Doping policy), up to the eight total […]