We've seen some seriously intense faces made in the Paris Olympics as the world's best athletes concentrate on their sport in the middle of twists, turns, some in midair, and others getting ready to ...

Weightlifting has been a staple of competition since humans developed the cognitive ability to look at each other's glutes, as the echoes of a softly grunted "pathetic" bounced against cave walls, ...

At 9 a.m. sharp, in a massive gymnasium just a block from Beijing’s Temple of Heaven, the Chinese women’s weight-lifting team reports for duty. Soon the training hall echoes with the sound of weights ...

A weight lifter walked away from his sport after a bitter loss in 2012. He and other athletes, including a U.S. figure skating team, will receive their medals in Paris. By John Yoon Reporting from ...

Hampton Morris became the first American man to break a senior weightlifting world record since 1969 and all but clinched his first Olympic berth on Tuesday. Morris, a 20-year-old from Georgia who is ...