The new Board at the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) is
gearing up to bring "positive change" to the sport, according to the
governing body’s new President Mohammed Jalood.
The International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) elections in June can
go ahead after a last-minute round-up of delegates helped to push
through a hugely significant change to rules concerning vetting of
candidates.
Some of weightlifting’s most popular Olympic champions of the 21st
century – and a 92-year-old who won Olympic gold nearly 70 years ago
– have added their voices to the clarion call for the International
Weightlifting Federation (IWF) Executive Board to put the sport before
their own interests.
Thursday, 18 February 2021
The International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) has done a U-turn on its anti-doping rules after criticism from the International Olympic Committee (IOC).
It has also accepted independent advice about the vetting of candidates for next month’s elections, which will be carried out by a panel comprising experts with no links to anybody at the IWF.
Less than four weeks ago Mike Irani, the IWF’s Interim President, said the controversial new anti-doping rules - which effectively made multiple violations less of a problem for offending nations - were a stronger, fairer and more enforceable set of rules than at any point in the IWF’s history .
Sunday, 24 January 2021
The International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) has made substantial changes to its anti-doping rules, leading to complaints from some nations of a lack of transparency and of loosening when it should be tightening the policing of multiple offenders.
A redrafted policy was needed as a new World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) Code came into effect from January 1, but no announcement was made by the IWF, which has posted the new document on its website without any comment or accompanying announcement.
It says it will hold groundbreaking anti-doping webinars for its members in the next few weeks, in many languages, which will be far more useful than sending out a document which is full of legal definitions .