What is implicated? The term is used in weightlifting in The Chinese Ace Project, which is very appropriate.
In the Olympic Games, the Chinese delegation has several dream teams, in addition to table tennis, diving, and weightlifting. In previous Olympic Games, the Chinese weightlifting team won a total of 41 gold medals, second only to diving and ahead of table tennis.
In this context, the reduction of the weightlifting gold medal event at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games has been a heavy blow to China's ace event weightlifting. The Chinese weightlifting team must also make targeted adjustments.
In recent days, the International Federation of Athletes is meeting in Uzbekistan, and one of the topics is the project setting of the Paris Olympic Games.
On December 21, Beijing time, Agapitov, executive committee member of the International Lifting Federation and president of the Russian Weightlifting Association, confirmed the previous rumors.
The total number of weightlifting gold medals at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games will be reduced from 14 to 10, with the adjusted events being the women's 49 kg, 59 kg, 71 kg, 81 kg and 81 kg and over classes, and the men's 61 kg, 73 kg, 89 kg, 102 kg and 102 kg and above.
In the past three Olympic Games, the weightlifting program has been shrinking, and the total number of participants has shrunk from 240 to 120. Today, as the gold medal event changes from 14 to 10, the number of participants will decrease again.
Of course, this is not to blame, the International Olympic Committee said that there is a very serious doping problem in the weightlifting program. This is not an exaggeration, weightlifting was the number one doping area of the 2008 and 2012 Olympic Games, and when re-examining 1243 samples from the two Olympic Games, the International Lifting Federation found that a total of 98 samples were positive, and many Olympic champions were deprived of gold medals and additionally banned.
At the Tokyo Olympics, the Chinese team won a total of 7 gold medals and 1 silver medal, and all 8 participants stood on the podium, consolidating China's position as the king of weightlifting.
After the adjustment, the three gold medalists of the Chinese team were retained, namely Li Fabin, the gold medalist of the men's 61 kg class, Shi Zhiyong, the gold medalist of the men's 73 kg class, and Hou Zhihui, the gold medalist of the women's 49 kg class.
The other two gold medalists of the women, Li Wenwen and Wang Zhouyu, do not have to worry too much, Li Wenwen's original women's 87 kg class has been adjusted to more than 81 kg class, which is no problem for the world's first female Lux.
Wang Zhouyu's 87 kg class of gold at the Tokyo Olympics was cancelled, and if she wants to continue to compete, there are two ways, directly participating in the 81 kg or more class, and confronting Li Wenwen, obviously, this is not realistic.
Another way is to descend to the 81 kg class. Wang Zhouyu once rose from the 75 kg class, and from this point of view, weight loss is not a big problem.
The most annoying thing is that the two Tokyo Olympic champions were directly expelled from the Olympic Games. They are 67 kilograms where Chen Lijun is located, and 81 kilograms of Lü Xiaojun.
The 37-year-old Lu Xiaojun wants to appear as an athlete in the Paris Olympics, or gain 8 kilograms to participate in the 89 kg class, or lose 8 kg to participate in the 73 kg class (the 73 kg class has the defending champion Shi Zhiyong sitting), which is quite difficult.
The 28-year-old Chen Lijun also faced similar problems, wanting to defend his title or gain 6 kg to compete with Shi Zhiyong for a place, or lose 6 kg to fight Li Fabin.
Compared with the reduction of the weightlifting gold medal at the Paris Olympic Games from 14 to 10, for the International Lifting Federation, greater pressure is still behind, and among the 28 major events initially announced by the 2028 Los Angeles Olympic Games, weightlifting that has existed since the first Olympic Games in 1896 has been temporarily excluded.
Where will China's second-largest gold-winning project go?