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 ...

SOFIA (Reuters) - Bulgaria reacted angrily on Monday to accusations that the former Soviet bloc has damaged the image of weightlifting more than any other region, insisting it is working to clean up ...

(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 ...

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SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Velichko Cholakov, a former European champion who was part of the Bulgarian weightlifting team withdrawn from the 2008 Beijing Olympics after a doping scandal, has died.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