Despite her name,Lady Cindy Rella is tough. She brought home eight gold medals from the Kettlebell Lifting World Championships,breaking two world records on the way.
While you’re unlikely to get ripped by adding weights to your workouts,you may do wonders for your bones and weight management.
Boxing and weightlifting have been struggling with the weight of corruption,governance,finance and judging scandals and have been warned to reform or miss out on the Games.
The controversial International Weightlifting Federation has been warned – change your ways or risk Olympic expulsion. This weekend in Doha the IWF must make a fundamental decision.
With the world still in the grips of the COVID-19 pandemic and the impact of its Delta variant,in some respects these Olympics came at exactly the right time,albeit a year later than scheduled.
On average,trans women will be taller,bigger and stronger than cisgender (or typical) women even after gender-affirming hormone therapy. But advantages are allowed in sport. Overwhelming advantages are not.
Weightlifter Laurel Hubbard has thanked the IOC for the inclusive policies that will allow her to be the first openly transgender athlete to compete at the Games.
Weightlifting was one of just nine sports at the first Olympics in 1896,but its resistance to change means its prognosis is not good.
Meet the women carving out a niche subculture of extreme sports;these are Australia’s Strong Women. They’re fit,they’re fierce and they want women to find their inner Amazonian.
The Tokyo Olympics are due to begin on July 23. Here are 10 international stars to keep a lookout for once competition begins.
The presence of Laurel Hubbard,the first transgender Olympian,will be a major story in Tokyo. To the members of Australia’s team,she’s simply another competitor.