Weightlifting has been a staple of competition since humans developed the cognitive ability to look at each other's glutes, as the echoes of a softly grunted "pathetic" bounced against cave walls, ...

The strongest sport at the Olympics is set to take stage on Wednesday, Aug. 7, in Paris where five Americans eye the podium. Olympic weightlifting, simply known to athletes as weightlifting, is not to ...

PARIS — Lasha Talakhadze of Georgia has won third consecutive Olympic title in the heaviest weightlifting division, taking gold in the men's +102 kilograms on Saturday. Talakhadze won gold in the ...

China won another back-to-back gold at Olympic weightlifting and Team USA Jourdan Delacruz redeemed her performance from the last Olympics. Hours after her teammate Hampton Morris made history with ...

PARIS (AP) — Olivia Reeves tried treating the Olympics like just another competition. It didn’t work. It didn’t matter, either. Nerves or no nerves, Reeves won the United States’ first Olympic gold ...

Every sport has its own way of marketing itself. For Mr. Olympia, they take a different approach by awarding honorary ambassador titles to celebrities and legends of the sport. Over these years, ...

WEIGHTS. ARE YOU CLEANING OR SNATCHING? HERE AT NORCAL STRENGTH SYSTEMS, OWNER RUSSELL JORDAN HELPS ATHLETES. PERFECT. ALL RIGHT. SO HE’S GOING TO GO SHOULDERS TO OVERHEAD THERE. LIFT PRESS IN THE ...

PRAGUE — Ota Zaremba, who won a weightlifting gold medal at the 1980 Moscow Olympics before admitting to using performance-enhancing drugs under a secret program run by the totalitarian regime in the ...

Pace girls weightlifting set FHSAA state records at the 3A state meet while winning a 4th straight traditional and 3rd ...