Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Try your hand at this Olympic lift and you'll quickly learn it's the ultimate test of strength, coordination, and power. When ...

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, ...

Olympic lifting has long been respected in the world of competitive sports, but today it’s also gaining traction among everyday fitness enthusiasts. Movements like the snatch and the clean and jerk ...

PARIS, Aug 8 (Reuters) - Chinese young gun Luo Shifang won the 59kg Olympic weightlifting title at the Paris Games on Thursday with a total of 241kg, setting Olympic records in the snatch and clean ...

PARIS, Aug 8 (Reuters) - Indonesia's Rizki Juniansyah won the men's 73kg Olympic weightlifting title at the Paris Games on Thursday with a total of 354kg, setting the Olympic record in the clean and ...

PARIS — For the first time in 40 years, an American man has won an Olympic medal in weightlifting. Hampton Morris, a 20-year-old who trains primarily out of the garage at his family's Georgia home, ...

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 ...

In the world of strength and conditioning, few movements command as much respect as Olympic lifts. Exercises like the clean and the snatch are staples not only in competitive weightlifting but also in ...

WEIGHTS. ARE YOU CLEANING OR SNATCHING? HERE AT NORCAL STRENGTH SYSTEMS, OWNER RUSSELL JORDAN HELPS ATHLETES. PERFECT. ALL RIGHT. SO HE’S GOING TO GO SHOULDERS TO OVERHEAD THERE. LIFT PRESS IN THE ...

China won another back-to-back gold at Olympic weightlifting and Team USA Jourdan Delacruz redeemed her performance from the last Olympics. Hours after her teammate Hampton Morris made history with ...