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 ...

* 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 ...

SOFIA, Feb 29 (Reuters) - Bulgarian officials stepped up their bid to secure an additional fee for allowing naturalised weightlifters Boyanka Kostova and Valentin Hristov to represent Azerbaijan in ...

SOFIA, Bulgaria — Bulgarian weightlifters will have to wait a lot longer to compete in the Olympics. In the latest scandal to affect the sport before the Beijing Games, the Bulgarian weightlifting ...

SOFIA (Reuters) - Eleven Bulgarian weightlifters have been banned for breaking anti-doping regulations, the Balkan country's weightlifting federation said on Wednesday. In March, eight male ...