Cristina Iovu (Bronze in London 2012 53kg) is wanted by the Moldovan police. How I understand it, she had a job in the Moldovan border police and is not allowed to defect. Back on January 1st she went to Azerbaijan for a competition and was supposed to return by January 31st. And as you probably […]

Turkey: Five Turkish lifters tested positive during the U23 Europeans last month. That was enough for the Turkish officials. The entire board of their weightlifting federation resigned. Akkus would not name the weightlifters, saying their positives had not been confirmed yet, but said none of them had won medals. Bulgaria: Ivan Abadjiev wants to return […]

Belarus axed their head coach. We heard the frustration Andrei Aramnau had with old coach (Alexander Goncharov). Turns out he was not the only one who was fed up with him. Now Leonid Taranenko chimed in and wrote an angry letter. On the positive doping test of a BLR teenager: The question is: how did the […]

And Azerbeijan’s & Bulgaria’s love story continues. Azerbaijan demands 100000 Euros for Ivan Stoitsov’s and Velichko Cholakov’s return to Bulgaria. Of course, as always, women are more expensive. So it comes to no surprise that they want 400000 Euros for Ivan’s girlfriend and 5th place finisher in London, Boyanka Kostova. The Bulgarian Weightlifting president (BTW, they […]