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BATON ROUGE, La. -- In Catholic High's weight room -- a modern, updated facility named for Catholic alum Gayle Hatch, the coach of the 2004 U.S. men's Olympic weightlifting team -- Bears head football coach Dale Weiner created a Wall of Fame of sorts...

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. -- Every spring, a few players step up and offer the first glimpses of an upcoming breakout season. Often, the media can only guess and project since they're not at every practice, weightlifting session and team meeting. The pla...

SEATTLE -- When recruits make the decision to enroll early, they face a tough task. They make a quick transition from high school to college. They trade weightlifting sessions with high school teammates for training time with players who have spen...

The IOC has stripped a Russian weightlifter of his bronze medal from the 2004 Athens Olympics following retesting of his doping samples.

UK Anti-Doping has banned weightlifter George Winston for two years after he admitted using banned steroids and a masking agent.

First it was a denied Internet rumor. Then it was a non-denied Internet rumor that got Michael Bay to thinkin'. Now it's totally confirmed. Reteaming after weightlifting comedy Pain and Gain, Michael Bay has cast Wahlberg in the next iteration of the...

Three power lifters have drawn two-year doping bans at the London Paralympics.

Miles Dieffenbach's shoes dragged across the sidewalk like sandpaper after the spring's first weightlifting session. He couldn't pick up his feet, couldn't pick up his pace - but could feel his every muscle ache. "It was a different kind of sorene...

Russian Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko has questioned some of the judging at the London Olympics, specifically in boxing and weightlifting.

It helps to have a thick neck if you're going to drop a 432-pound barbell on it.

Before the night's live sports action, one great photoset of photos from the day: This is what Olympic weightlifting looks like. The competitors: Damon Kelly of Australia, Frederic Fokejou Tefot of Cameroon, Kazuomi Ota of Japan (all top row, left...

Iran ruled the final event of the Olympic weightlifting competition, winning gold and silver medals in a super heavyweight battle that Germany's defending champion left after a 432-pound barbell crashed down on his neck.

Velichko Cholakov of Azerbaijan has withdrawn from the super heavyweight weightlifting competition at the London Olympics.

Defending Olympic weightlifting champion Matthias Steiner of Germany was hit in the neck by the barbell Tuesday and withdrew from the men's super heavyweight competition.

Oleksiy Torokhtiy won a surprise weightlifting gold medal for Ukraine on Monday after the top names in the 105-kilogram category dropped out or were eliminated.

Zhou Lulu is the world's strongest woman.