How can gigantic people in singlets, lifting large amounts of weight over their heads, be one of the most moving events at the Summer Olympics? Spencer Hall explains, with the technique and story of ...

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Here's what you need to know about weightlifting at the 2024 Paris Olympics. When did weightlifting become an Olympic sport? The first modern Olympic Games in 1896 included men's weightlifting, but ...

A lot of people who go to Olympic weightlifting competitions are not the types of people you would expect to go to Olympic weightlifting competitions. I, for example, am long-limbed and lanky, and do ...

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 ...

Rim Jong-sim of North Korea won Olympic gold in the women's 75-kilogram weightlifting event at the Rio Games on Friday, as she repeated her success in London four years ago. Kianoush Rostami of Iran ...

TOKYO (AP) — Age isn't weighing Lyu Xiaojun down. The 37-year-old Chinese weightlifter became the oldest man to win an Olympic gold medal in the sport on Saturday after a tense finish in the men's ...

Mar. 21—University of Wyoming junior Emma Rogers had a successful trip to the USA Weightlifting University Nationals at the Arnold Classic earlier this month, winning silver medals in the snatch, ...

Dietitian Julie Upton, MS, RD, of Appetite for Health is as into fitness as she is food. And Olympic lifting is her go-to workout. Learn how it changed her body. I've been doing CrossFit — varied, ...

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