After the 2000 Olympics, leaders launched an effort dubbed Project 119, boosting funding in swimming, gymnastics and weightlifting.
The state should subsidise less popular sports like diving, gymnastics and weightlifting, China Daily quotes him as saying.
And whole books have been written about the cheaters in international swimming and weightlifting, to say nothing of the Tour de France.
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But skeleton and weightlifting have about as much in common as quilting and auto repair, and that is what makes Ms. Uhlaender so unusual.
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Wei Di, who was head of China's Water Sports Administration, has little experience in football, having also been in charge of Chinese boxing and weightlifting.
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He dated women, went to church and joined a weightlifting club and even a gang, all to try to feel heterosexual, but nothing worked.
Evans starred for Wales at the 2002 Commonwealth Games in the weightlifting and judo squads.
Regardless of how she does, she wants to continue to pursue both weightlifting and skeleton.
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Basketball, table tennis, judo, handball, indoor volleyball, water polo, weightlifting and beach volleyball have all already been given host national places.
He initially focused on weightlifting and gym workouts to build up his muscles, calling the iPod one of the best products ever invented for those seeking to get fit.
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Udomporn won the women's 53kg weightlifting crown and Asian superpower China clinched its fifth gold courtesy of Xian Dongmei's victory in the women's 52kg judo.
Predictably, Eurasians dominate weightlifting, wrestling and most field events, such as the shot put and hammer.
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Rather than shortening and tightening muscles, which is a common result in traditional weightlifting, they're designed to lengthen and loosen muscles while attaining greater flexibility and range of motion.
He said he came to associate the macho bulk that resulted from weightlifting with a slower swing and stiffer movement in the field.
The South Asian nation of 1.2 billion is fielding 84 athletes in 13 sports including hockey, table tennis, weightlifting, wrestling, shooting and badminton, as well as 58 officials.
Indeed, at the new Nikaia Olympic weightlifting hall there were more volunteers and officials than paying spectators for the early sessions.
The way China's diminutive Zhan Xugang mocked gravity and hoisted a 357.5 kg combined weight off the floor in the weightlifting?
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