After her final lift in the 71 kg weightlifting competition at the Olympic Games in Paris earlier this month, Olivia Reeves stepped off the platform in a daze. Reeves had just secured a gold medal and ...

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 ...

Here's what you need to know about weightlifting at the 2024 Paris Olympics. When did weightlifting become an Olympic sport? The first modern Olympic Games in 1896 included men's weightlifting, but ...

Olivia Reeves hoisted the United States to its first Olympic weightlifting gold medal in 24 years on Thursday, winning the women's 71kg (157 pounds) competition. Reeves set an Olympic record on Friday ...

As athletes worldwide compete on the grandest stage, a global spotlight has converged on Paris, France, as the home of the 2024 Summer Olympics. Amidst this worldwide celebration, the University of ...

Olivia Reeves won her first world weightlifting title, four months after becoming the first American to take Olympic gold in the sport since 2000. Reeves, 21, won the 71kg division at worlds in Manama ...

Jacksonville weightlifter and Olympic bronze medalist Joe Dube died at the age of 81. Dube won the 1969 World Weightlifting Championships, becoming the last American man to do so. He earned a bronze ...

LAKE WALES — Majesta Arnold again was the top lifter in both the Traditional and Olympic competitions to lead Lake Wales to ...