However, the sport of weightlifting recognizes just two lifts for competition: the snatch and the clean and jerk. At the Olympics, lifters are tested in both disciplines in a combined competition. The ...

Li Wenwen won the women's +81 kilogram division to give China five gold medals in weightlifting at the Paris Olympics, while the U.S. came away with two weightlifting medals during the Games.

The International Olympic Committee has been retroactively stripping athletes of Olympic medals due to the reanalysis of drug tests from the past two Games, and the International Weightlifting ...