Pampered heroes during communist times, Albania's weightlifters now train in a rundown hall, hoping to improve their image at the upcoming World Championships after a doping scandal.
An Armenian army officer with amputated limbs has won the multiple world champion’s title in the Armwrestling Cup for the Disabled .
Hundreds of mourners including his greatest sporting rival attended the funeral of Turkey's triple Olympic champion Naim Süleymanoglu on Sunday.
Multiple World and Olympic weightlifting champion Naim Süleymanoğlu has died at the age of 50 after having been placed into intensive care at the Ataşehir Memorial in Istanbul, Turkish media said Saturday, quoted by Daily Sabah.
Turkey's legendary triple Olympic gold medal winning weightlifting champion Naim Suleymanoglu, dubbed the "pocket Hercules" for generating huge power from his diminutive frame, has died aged 50, state media said.
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The weightlifter champion Velichko Cholakov has died suddenly, his relatives reported,quoted by BTV.
They explained that he fell sick after 10:00 am today, that they called a team of emergency care, who found he had a heart attack.
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Tia-Clair Toomey won the 2017 Reebok CrossFit games on Monday. Toomey is the first Australian to win an individual CrossFit Games competition. The athlete has an intense training regimen featuring everything from running to lifting weights.
