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 ...

(Fixes typo in headline) ZURICH, Jan 29 (Reuters) - Bulgaria's weightlifters will be barred from the Rio Olympics after the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) on Friday rejected an appeal against a ...

The change follows Turkey’s withdrawal as hosts, a decision made to avoid potential doping-related embarrassment for the sport. Turkey has recently had three athletes provisionally suspended for ...

(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 ...

The Ministry said it had refused to renew the federation's licence because it had "breached the anti-doping regulations and sports ethics ahead of the Beijing Olympic Games and marred Bulgaria's ...

Bulgarian weightlifting star Karlos Nasar has been voted Sportsman of the Year for 2025, topping the 68th edition of the annual journalists’ poll with 1,040 points. The Olympic champion from Paris ...

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 ...

SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Velichko Cholakov, a former European champion who was part of the Bulgarian weightlifting team withdrawn from the 2008 Beijing Olympics after a doping scandal, has died.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

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 (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 was found at his home in (the ...