The weightlifters demanded the minister apologise otherwise they will boycott the Games.

In Dateline Pacific, Samoa raises complaint about transgender weightlifters competing against women.

But for now, weightlifters and yoga enthusiasts alike can sweat all they want.

These were weightlifters and circus strongmen recruited by the CIA for the day.

A total of 15 weightlifters were provisionally suspended by the International Olympic Committee.

Younger, bigger weightlifters can hoist heavier bars than he can.

Proscovia, Uganda's vice-captain and opening ceremony flag-bearer, said the weightlifters might just be visiting relatives.

Conversely, three weightlifters also tested positive but received bans ranging from six months to life.

The lack of trainer meant the weightlifters were being forced to treat each other's injuries.

Turkish weightlifters won two gold medals and a silver at the 2007 world youth championships.

There's a lot of small weightlifters, 48 kilo class.

The two Welshmen's behaviour put all of Britain's weightlifters on the brink of international disqualification.

Here in the gym at Leeds Metropolitan University, British weightlifters are training for the Olympics.

Thai weightlifters are banned from the Tokyo Games due to a high number of doping cases.

Pacific weightlifters remain upbeat despite falling just short of Olympic qualification at last month's World Championships.

The probes also threaten to keep weightlifters, cyclists, and other Russian athletes out of international competition.