A couple of days before the start of the weightlifting competitions at 19th Asian Games, host China suffered a setback as it will be competing without the world's strongest female weightlifter, who has pulled out of the Asian Games due to an .
Lasha Talakhadze had to fight for his sixth straight world title in a
sensational final session at the International Weightlifting
Federation World Championships in Bogotá in Colombia.
At the end of a year when weightlifting news has been dominated by
reforms, election controversies, politics and doping, the athletes
return to centre stage tomorrow at the 2022 International
Weightlifting Federation World Championships in Bogotá, Colombia.
Bahrain has "passed the test with flying colours" in hosting a major
weightlifting event for the first time and is already aiming higher,
seeking to host an International Weightlifting Federation World
Championships.