Colombia, the strongest team entered in the Pan American Weightlifting
Championships, has withdrawn two days before the event starts because
of a dispute over "cash only" payments.
Loredana-Elena Toma finally got the better of Chinese opponents to win
her second world title and become the only non-Asian holder of a
current world record in women's weightlifting.
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.