Weightlifting

Male-born transgender Strongman competitor Audrey Yun is under scrutiny for taunting his female opponents in explicit terms.

An Internet fitness influencer is going viral after a workout stunt went wrong and it was all caught on video.

Bodybuilder Paul Poloczek died suddenly only hours after the NPC Worldwide Championship in Germany on May 28. He was only 37.

Well-known bodybuilder and coach John Meadows died “unexpectedly” and peacefully” at his home on Sunday, according to a Facebook post. The post, signed by Brooke Nappo and written on behalf of Meadows’ wife, told of the “shock” the family was

New Zealand transexual weightlifter Laurel hubbard failed to record a single successful lift in the women’s +87kg weightlifting at the Tokyo Olympics on Monday morning, crashing out of the competition in the process.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) reaffirmed its full support of transgender athletes Friday when medical director Richard Budgett said  “transwomen are women” and should be included in women’s sport “when we possibly can.”

The 2021 Olympic Games iJapann are historic not for sport but over the controversy of biological men competing against biological women.

Former British Olympic swimmer Sharron Davies took to social media Monday to criticize the International Olympic Committee for allowing a biological male to compete against women in the upcoming Tokyo Olympics.

A pregnant professional fitness trainer has sparked controversy on social media after she posted video of herself squatting 315 lbs. mere weeks before her due date.

Sharron Davies, a past Olympic swimmer, is speaking out against a transgender woman poised to compete in the Tokyo Olympics this summer.

A man who goes by the name Laurel Hubbard could be the first transgender woman to compete in the Olympics this summer in Japan.

A transgender weightlifter has swept the women’s categories in the 2019 Pacific Games in Samoa, winning two gold medals over natural-born female opponents.

A Russian weightlifter suffered a gruesome broken leg while attempting to squat a 550-pound barbell, Sunday.

The leading U.S. weightlifting association has formally excluded transgender males from its women’s division, marking another win for supporters of women’s athletics.

A weightlifting league has revoked awards to a transgender athlete who claimed to have broken several women’s weightlifting records.

Transgender powerlifter Mary Gregory recently celebrated the feat of smashing four women’s weightlifting records at the same event, but opponents cried foul since Gregory was born a man and only recently announced becoming a transgender woman.

A French weightlifter suffered a shocking and devastating injury live on stage during the European Weightlifting Championships, when her left arm buckled and snapped in two places causing the barbell to knock her to the ground and then roll over her back.

A Welsh weightlifter collapsed unconscious from lack of oxygen, after a failed attempt to lift a 353-pound barbell during Sunday’s 2018 Commonwealth Games at Carrara Stadium, in Carrara, Australia.