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 ...

(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 ...

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 ...

Despite a long-running internal political dispute that kept Bulgaria out of the recent International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) Junior World Championships, Bulgaria is now very well placed to ...

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 ...

LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) Banned from the 2016 Olympics for excessive doping, Bulgaria's weightlifting team has appealed to sport's highest court. The Court of Arbitration for Sport says the ...

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.

SOFIA, Bulgaria-- Bulgarian media reports former Olympic weightlifting champion Galabin Boevski has been sentenced to nine years and four months in prison by a court in Brazil after 20 pounds of ...