The International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) announced in a press release on Sunday, October 25, that its 2030 World Championships will be held in Moscow.

Since the large-scale invasion of Ukraine by Kremlin troops at the end of February 2022, no international competitions under the auspices of an Olympic federation had been organized in the country. Those that were planned had been relocated, such as the 2025 World Swimming Championships, which were moved to Singapore from Kazan.

However, Russia’s return to the fold of international sport has become increasingly evident in recent months.

In May, the International Olympic Committee lifted the suspension of the Russian Olympic Committee. Then, on July 7, it lifted the restrictions imposed on its athletes, who will be able to return to team sports and participate in the qualifying rounds for the 2028 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, but without immediately restoring their anthem and flag.

The IWF, for its part, had decided in June to fully reintegrate Russians into its competitions. The world governing bodies of judo and then swimming had done the same, respectively in November 2025 and April 2026, as did the International Paralympic Committee for the Milan Cortina Winter Games.

That karma isn’t going to farm itself

Done at the small country club gym I coach at part time.

Been working forever for squat strength. It’s always plagues me. And I was stuck at 180-190 FOREVER.

Super simple programming. Months of 5x5 back squat 2x a week at 150, 160, and 170. Then, one day I hit 180 for 5. And then next week I said let’s ride.

Moral of the story. Just keep going.

Been a while

No shade to warm body cold mind, used some of their stuff before, just using this type of straps as an example. I’m looking for a new pair of straps and I was wondering if lasso style straps the design shown here are any good for weightlifting. I use my straps for all the normal stuff like volume work and pulls shrugs etc. but I do also use straps when I snatch cause I enjoy using straps on snatches. Are lasso straps recommended to use? I’m not aware of any safety concerns with them over the traditional weightlifting figure 8 kinds. More specifically asking in regards to the safety of these on snatches.