SOFIA (Reuters) - Bulgaria withdrew its national weightlifting team from the Beijing Olympics on Friday after 11 members of the team failed dope tests, the national weightlifting federation said. The ...

Karlos Nasar won Olympic gold and broke the world record with a total of 404 kg, beating Colombia's Yeison López, who lifted 390 kg. It was Bulgaria's second medal of the Paris Games, following silver ...

Emily Godley took the women's 71 kilograms by a comfortable margin with a total of 227kg, a second great result for Britain in successive days after Sarah Davies finished second in the 64kg on Tuesday ...

PARIS (AP) — Karlos Nasar of Bulgaria won weightlifting gold at the Olympics and broke two world records on Friday, just over a year after a hotel sink fell on him and severed his left Achilles tendon ...

(Adds details, quotes) SOFIA, March 21 (Reuters) - Bulgaria's 2004 Olympic weightlifting champion Milen Dobrev has died at the age of 35, the Bulgarian interior ministry said on Saturday. "His body ...

SOFIA, Bulgaria – Bulgaria's weightlifting federation says it will withdraw its team from the Beijing Olympics after 11 lifters tested positive for a banned steroid. The federation said in a statement ...

Bulgarian Karlos Nasar became the lightest man to lift 400 kilogrammes in competition as he shattered the men's 89kg weightlifting world record at the Olympics on Friday.