Weightlifters

Game changer Now, weightlifters who participate in competitions organized by any IWF member organizations worldwide – not just in the U.S. – can choose to participate in uniforms that cover their arms and legs. ❋ Unknown (2011)

U.S. weightlifters haven't won an Olympic gold medal for 40 years. ❋ Hannah Karp (2011)

For the past six months, Mr. Abadjiev has been spending nearly every morning and afternoon training competitive weightlifters at a new academy here, missing work only when he heads out of town to lecture. ❋ Hannah Karp (2011)

Sure, there'd be weightlifters in the gym and selected movie stars who were 'built' but everybody else was either weedy or podgy, with only the odd natural Adonis scattered in between. ❋ The Guyliner (2011)

Unable to afford gym memberships due to the economic downturn, weightlifters in New York find innovative replacements for the ordinary dumbell. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Brian L. Frank for The Wall Street Journal For the past six months, Mr. Abadjiev has been spending nearly every morning and afternoon training competitive weightlifters at a new academy in Danville, Calif. ❋ Unknown (2011)

He also coached national teams in Turkey and Qatar and even Bulgaria's junior badminton players before returning to coach the Bulgarian weightlifters for the 2000 Sydney Olympics. ❋ Hannah Karp (2011)

Unable to afford gym memberships due to the economic downturn, weightlifters in New York find an innovative replacement for the ordinary dumbell. ❋ Unknown (2009)

He won't hear any argument from Matt Gary, who opened Supreme Sports Performance & Training in Rockville in 2009 to be a home specifically for weightlifters and powerlifters. ❋ Post (2010)

Mr. Abadi is ranked No. 1 in the U.S. in his weight class among weightlifters born in 1995. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Vaguely disturbing but irrelevant picture of backyard weightlifters. ❋ Con Chapman (2011)

Some of the more extreme magazine images of hyper-muscular women bodybuilders and weightlifters have fed this fear. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Eastern bloc weightlifters used steroids to great success in the 1952 Olympics. ❋ Rich Karlgaard (2010)