Dear Ladies and Gentlemen

On behalf of the IPF EC I would like to wish you all a nice Christmas and a Happy New Year.

One more year has passed, and we have made great progress in our lovely sport again, despite some people trying to put stones in our way just for their own ego.

For me and the whole EC our priorities have always been and will always be to serve our lifters and our sport.

Unfortunately, this is not always the case with some officials who were only considering their own interests and their goal was to destroy IPF.

Lifters from those Federations have just been misused to continue their own politics and of course they believed what they have been told.

It is easy to see all that has been done by the IPF to bring the sport forward and only those who cannot or do not want to recognize this, have no idea what is really going on.

The IPF will continue its good work that has been done so far to make IPF an IOC recognized federation.

This means that all our member...