Olympic medallists were among weightlifters from seven countries who competed at - but not in - the USA National Championships in Las Vegas.

Ursula Papandrea has used a moment from the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) Youth World Championships in Mexico to highlight her "athletes first" message in the build-up to the sport’s most-important elections since the IWF was founded more than 100 years ago.

Ursula Papandrea has been nominated by USA Weightlifting (USAW) to stand for International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) President.

In the wake of the latest doping scandal in weightlifting, National Federations have called for Nicu Vlad and Hasan Akkus to resign from the Executive Board of the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF).

The International Weightlifting Federation’s (IWF) claim that it has "moved speedily" in attempting to change the way the sport is governed has been rejected by its former Interim President Ursula Papandrea.

Weightlifting’s governing body needs a new name and a new direction, and the sport needs new rules to make it more attractive to spectators, according to two Presidential candidates in the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) elections next month.

Ursula Papandrea, who was ousted as Interim President by the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) Executive Board and is running for the permanent Presidency in the forthcoming elections, has raised strong concerns about the eligibility of some of her rivals.

Nations from around the world have written to the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) to express their dismay at the governing body’s failure to publish the list of candidates for forthcoming elections.

The International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) has moved it's two-day Constitutional Congress back by a month, but will go ahead with elections as planned in the last week of March.

Ursula Papandrea has announced her intent to regain the leadership of the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) and made a damning condemnation of a "toxic culture of corruption" within the organisation.

Tamás Aján was corrupt and had to go but he was "a convenient fall guy...part of a bigger problem in weightlifting" according to Ursula Papandrea, the woman who replaced him as leader of the sport’s governing body.

Here is a report amalgamated, with slight modifications, from three different sources – this website and two newspapers who published this news on May 22 last year.

The Executive Board of the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) has been accused of putting its own members’ interests ahead of the sport’s Olympic future in a damning resignation letter by Ursula Papandrea.

Ursula Papandrea says she was voted out of office by her own Executive Board at the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) because they were unhappy that she "told the International Olympic Committee (IOC) the truth."

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has said it is "very worried" after Ursula Papandrea was ousted as Interim President of the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) and replaced by Intarat Yodbangtoey.