We've seen some seriously intense faces made in the Paris Olympics as the world's best athletes concentrate on their sport in the middle of twists, turns, some in midair, and others getting ready to ...

Ancient Greek weightlifter Bybon went down in history for the feat of lifting a 150kg stone, Milo of Croton built his strength by carrying a growing cow up a hill for weeks and now there is Lasha ...

PARIS — A hulking weightlifter raises a bar of more than 300 pounds (135 kilograms) and swiftly drops it the ground, followed by cheers cascading down from the crowd. Before another competitor can ...

It's time for the world's strongest athletes to show how much they can lift. Olympic weightlifting — also referred to as just weightlifting — will be on the cards for the 2024 Paris Games.

PARIS — Li Wenwen won the women’s +81 kilogram division on Sunday to give China five gold medals in weightlifting at the Paris Olympics. Li was the runaway winner by lifting a total of 309 kilograms ...

There are 61 athletes in the five women’s weightlifting classes at the Paris Olympics. Mary Theisen-Lappen is the oldest one. At 33, Theisen-Lappen doesn’t have the orthodox background of a lifter who ...

It has been 24 years since women were first allowed to compete in weightlifting at the Olympics. Team USA's Olivia Reeves was just 3 years old when Tara Nott-Cunningham won the country's first and ...