Topic: Weightlifting
AFP Global Edition | 2009-10-13 09:00:31
<div><p>Two Indian weightlifters with Commonwealth Games medals face life bans after testing positive for banned substances a second time, an official said on Tuesday.</p><p>Shailaja Pujari, who won three gold medals in the women's 75-kilogram (165-pound) category at the 2002 Games in Manchester, failed an out-of-competition test ...
Zumapress | 2009-08-28 01:09:52
Erol Bilgin of Turkey competes in the 62 kg men's clean and jerk final, at the European Weightlifting Championships in Bucharest, Romania, 06 April 2009. Bilgin won the gold medal.
AP News | 2009-08-13 06:09:02
<div id="subtitle">Weightlifting helps, not harms, breast cancer survivors with arm swelling, study finds</div><div><p>Breast cancer survivors have been getting bum advice. For decades, many doctors warned that lifting weights or even heavy groceries could cause painful arm swelling. New research shows that weight training actually helps prevent ...
Reuters US Online Report Health News | 2009-08-12 21:33:04
<div><p>BOSTON (Reuters) - Slowly building strength with upper-body weight-lifting can relieve some of the arm and hand swelling that occurs in breast cancer survivors who have had lymph nodes under their arms removed, U.S. researchers said on Wednesday.</p><p>After a year, women who did a twice weekly workout ...
