Lifter

NAIROBI, Kenya — Days after he returned home, Ugandan authorities are detaining without charges a weight lifter who went missing in Japan, where he had hoped to compete in the Tokyo Olympics, and ignoring pleas from his family for his…

The gold was hers.The second youngest of six siblings, Diaz grew up in the southern Philippine city of Zamboanga, a place intermittently seized by sectarian conflict. Her family was poor, and she tried weight lifting as an 11 year old,…

A weight lifter who went missing in Japan this month as he sought to qualify for the Tokyo Olympics has returned to Uganda and will be interrogated by police, authorities said on Friday — a week after his disappearance prompted…

TOKYO — A man identifying himself as the Ugandan weight lifter who went missing last week after he left his hotel room at a training camp in Osaka prefecture in Japan has been found by the police in a town about 100 miles away. A statement…

TOKYO — A Ugandan weight lifter who traveled to Japan in the hopes of competing in the Tokyo Olympics has gone missing from his hotel near an athletic training camp, officials said on Friday.Julius Ssekitoleko, 20, one of nine Ugandans who…

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Mirabai Chanu was shattered after a disappointing performance at the 2016 Rio Olympics. ‘No lift’ in all three clean and jerk attempts left her to return home clueless as to what had happened.She was confronted with a similar situation at…