The weightlifters on Iraq's national women's team train hard every day, both to bring home the medals and to help ease the financial burden of running a home.
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.
