There is no suspense in the final "verdict"! Ahead of time, the International Weightlifting Federation announced that Khalid Kolani, who was the head coach of the national weightlifting teams of Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Tunisia, has been banned for life!
As a coach, the 51-year-old Corani enjoys a high reputation in the weightlifting field.
Kolani refuted the established facts firmly, perhaps sensing danger. Because of the frequent scandals of the Egyptian weightlifting team, at the 2019 African Games, a total of 6 athletes on the Egyptian weightlifting team tested positive for doping.
Afterwards, Mohammed Moussa, technical director of egypt's national weightlifting team, and coach Mohammed Hosni were jailed for allegedly distributing banned drugs to team members.
The former partner has been jailed, is this the end of Kolani?
Once upon a time, Korani was known as Egypt's weightlifting hero and gold medal coach, and under his leadership, Egypt has made great progress in weightlifting. While still unable to compete with the Weightlifting Dream Team, Egyptian weightlifters Mohammed Ihab and Ahmed reached the podium at the Rio Olympics under The Corani.
What kind of glory is this? Since 1948, Egypt has not had a weightlifter win a medal at the Olympic Games, and Kolani claims that his training method has allowed athletes to improve their performance so fast that it has made another breakthrough in 68 years.
In addition to the Olympic Games, Under The Coaching of Kolani, Egyptian weightlifters have also won gold medals in major competitions on several occasions. However, the 2016 African Youth Championship put a big question mark on Corani's career.
At that time, seven Egyptian athletes who competed were tested positive for strong dialenone. It was clear that the stimulants they were taking had not yet been metabolized.
Infuriatingly, three of the 7 young athletes are between the ages of 16 and 17, and the other two are 14-year-old girls!
After the East Window incident, the International Federation of Athletes banned seven athletes for 4 years, and they have been waiting for the Egyptian side to investigate themselves, and strangely, no coaches, medical staff or other officials have been held accountable.
In the summer of 2019, the International Lifting Federation announced that the Egyptian weightlifting team had been banned for two years as a whole, a penalty that also prevented them from participating in the Tokyo Olympics.
When the ban was issued, Kolani had already left Egypt, he traveled to Saudi Arabia and Tunisia, successively served as the head coach of the weightlifting teams of two countries, and in the three years of coaching in Saudi Arabia, Saudi athletes won medals at the World Championships, Junior World Championships and Youth Olympic Games for the first time.
Looking back now, one can't help but wonder whether there were other elements to these achievements.
As for the punishment of the lifetime ban, Kolani shouted through the media, saying that this is a conspiracy against Egyptian weightlifting, only because under his leadership, Egyptian weightlifting has achieved too much: "Why should I risk my reputation and reputation as a coach in this way to instigate athletes to take doping? ”
This question, I don't know if Kolani already has the answer.