The total number of weight classes in Olympic weightlifting will increase to 12 at the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, ...

Weightlifting has been a staple of competition since humans developed the cognitive ability to look at each other's glutes, as the echoes of a softly grunted "pathetic" bounced against cave walls, ...

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 ...

The first weightlifting event at the Paris Olympics started with a technical delay for about 20 minutes, but eventually, 12 men weighing under 61 kg from 12 countries stepped on the platform. Team USA ...

PARIS – When weightlifter Olivia Reeves showed up to compete at the South Paris Arena on Friday, she knew “there were going to be tears, good or bad.” She was supposed to win the 71 kg competition at ...

The United States’ long wait for an Olympic men’s weightlifting medalist is over after four decades, as Marietta, Georgia’s Hampton Morris lifted his way to bronze in the men’s 61kg (134 lbs.) final.