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Asia and Europe compete to gain the Weightlifting Medals in Beijing Olympic

After being determined the quotas of different countries for the presence in Beijing Olympic by IWF; in fact, from this great international event the shares of different continents of the world were appointed. In men's section 164 athletes could gain quota because of their own good performance. Among the Europe with 79 weightlifters (48/2 percent of total participants) and Asia with 48 weightlifters (29/3 percent of total participants) allocated themselves the most number of the participants. As matter of fact, the both continents altogether have made up 77/5 percent of Olympic Weightlifters and the main competing is running between the two continents to gain the colorful medals and valuable titles. The Pan American continent with 23 participants stands in the third place in the aspect of numbers in ,,,, More