Tensions between Bulgaria’s weightlifting champion Karlos Nasar and the leadership of the Bulgarian Weightlifting Federation ...

SOFIA (Reuters) - Bulgaria's former world championship silver medalist Damyan Damyanov died on Sunday at the age of 39, becoming the latest member of a once-mighty Bulgarian weightlifting team to pass ...

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 ...

PARIS — 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.

ASENOVGRAD, Bulgaria (Reuters) - Bulgaria's weightlifters are on a mission to clean up their sport's tarnished reputation after a series of doping scandals and suspensions at the Olympic Games. Sign ...

On 19 December, Bulgarian weightlifting champion Karlos Nasar will receive the 2024 Ikar Sports Award, presented by the Bulgarian Sports Foundation. This recognition follows Nasar's gold medal win in ...

* Bulgarian lifters also missed 2008 Games over doping * Romania also stripped of one spot (adds detail, background) By Karolos Grohmann BERLIN, Nov 20 (Reuters) - Bulgaria's weightlifters will be ...

Bulgaria's Karlos Nasar once again proved his class and resilience by reclaiming the world title in weightlifting, marking his third world championship crown. Competing in the 94 kg category at the ...

PARIS (AP) — Olivia Reeves tried treating the Olympics like just another competition. It didn’t work. It didn’t matter, either. Nerves or no nerves, Reeves won the United States’ first Olympic gold ...

SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Velichko Cholakov, a former European champion who was part of the Bulgarian weightlifting team withdrawn from the 2008 Beijing Olympics after a doping scandal, has died. He was ...