The triple Olympic gold medallist Pyrros Dimas has highlighted the importance of listening to the views of nations around the world during the process of restoring weightlifting’s credibility. For the ...

ATHENS – It was going on three minutes now, and still they stood, still they applauded, still they roared. Still there were 6,000 people stuffed into every corner of the Nikaia Olympic Weightlifting ...

On billboards across Athens, weightlifter Pyrros Dimas is featured in sportswear ads under the words, “Impossible is lifting your country.” Winning a record-breaking fourth gold medal proved ...

On the way to the meeting, the translator is curious. What kind of business will we be discussing? It's not really a business meeting, I assure her: just an interview with a sportsman, by the name of ...

ATHENS — The Olympics’ strongest man raised one bandaged hand and halted a medal ceremony Saturday, in mid-wreath, amid screeching and sparks. The Olympics’ strongest man won the bronze, but the ...

Pyrros Dimas of Greece set two world records in winning the gold medal in lifting's 182}-pound division. Dimas, 24, broke his own records with 396} pounds in the snatch and a total of 865\ pounds. He ...

(ATR) An Olympic weightlifting legend throws his hat into the ring for president of the sport’s embattled federation. Pyrros Dimas, currently the Greek Weightlifting Federation president and a member ...

The podium was unfamiliar. Shorter than those to which he had become accustomed. And the place in history was all wrong. Clearly not the destination he had chased across a decade. To Pyrros Dimas, ...

Olympic weightlifting champion Pyrros Dimas flew to Europe on Tuesday for meetings of the sport’s international federation. By Wednesday, the Greek sports hero learned he wouldn’t be able to return ...

(ATR) Greek weightlifting legend Pyrros Dimas decides not to quit the Executive Board of the International Weightlifting Federation but to stay and fight for reforms from within the IWF. Dimas, the ...

— -- ATHENS, Greece -- Greek weightlifting star Pyrros Dimas sought hospital treatment after injuring his right wrist in practice Monday, five days before he goes for a record-setting fourth ...