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IWF In Turmoil As Interim President American Ursula Papandrea Quit Executive Board Few Days After Been ousted

The American Ursula Papandrea, who was voted out of office as Interim President of the IWF on Tuesday has now throw in the towel, accusssing IWF Executive Board of putting its own members’ interests ahead of the sport’s Olympic future in a damning resignation letter. Her resignation as a vice-president, after nine months of “stalling, […]

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WADA Appalled Over Decadence Of Doping Cover-up In Weightlifting

World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) President Witold Bańka has declared that the organisation was “appalled” by the findings of McLaren’s team. The McLaren report revealed that doping positives had been covered up, athletes who should have been banned won medals at world and continental levels, and suspensions were deliberately delayed by Aján’s “meddling” and interference in […]

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Women Took Over The Fiji Weightlifting Board

The Fiji sport administrators were dazed when Fiji women won more than half of the seat, including the president in the election to the Fiji Weightlifting Board. The female outgoing President Atma Maharaj has now been replaced by a woman, Della Shaw-Elder. Ursula Papandrea, who became the first woman to lead the International Weightlifting Federation […]