Eight of the nine top lifters tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs, not steroids, as originally reported.

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Exercising at the pull-up bar brings a camaraderie that you don't see among weight lifters, Yasin said.

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India almost failed to enter a team after six of their lifters tested positive for banned substances last year.

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The best female lifters can toss the equivalent of two very large men above their heads in a single motion.

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There were bodybuilders like Lou Ferrigno, football players like Robert Young, and weight lifters like Bruce Wilhelm, who won the contest.

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Since 1976, twelve lifters, all but one of them from Eastern Europe, have been stripped of Olympic medals owing to drug use.

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There are four primary characters you must always identify in the meeting: the leaders, the lifters, the loafers and the leeches.

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Early on, to get around rules restricting Olympic participation to amateurs, Hoffman would hire the lifters at his factory for as little as ten dollars a week and let them train on-site.

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The weight lifters lost an average of 1.4 kilograms (3.1 pounds) of fat compared to the control group, while the combination exercisers lost 1.7 kilograms (3.7 pounds) of fat compared to their sedentary peers.

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Anderson told him to come back in the future with a long-sleeved shirt. (Showing off your muscles is considered bad form among serious lifters.) All the better for the wire he was wearing, White figured.

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