Russian weightlifters were barred from Olympic qualifying events, and did not compete at the 2024 Summer Olympic Games in Paris. Int’l kickboxing promotion Glory lifts previously imposed ...

Paris — Ukrainian double European champion weightlifter Oleksandr ... in February 2022 at the start of the Russian invasion, noted the Ukrainian Olympic Committee in its own online tribute ...

a two-time European weightlifting champion who represented Ukraine in the 2016 Olympics, is dead at age 30, according to reports, while fighting in the Russia-Ukraine war. Pielieshenko “died in ...