Beijing time on the evening of March 21, the blockbuster news - athletics integrity organization reported that Russian women's race walker Rushmanova was banned for two years for taking banned drugs, and her gold medal in the women's 20 km race walk won at the 2012 London Olympics will be cancelled. In this way, the Chinese Tibetan player Qiyang Shijie will win the championship, and it is worth mentioning that the Chinese team won the gold, silver and bronze medals in the project!
Fast forward to a decade ago, on August 11, 2012, in the women's 20 km race walk at the London Olympics, Russian rookie Rushmanova came behind in the last minute, surpassing teammate Karniskina to win the gold medal and break the world record with a time of 1 hour 25 minutes and 02 seconds, who finished second. Sister Cheyangshi finished third with a time of 1 hour, 25 minutes and 16 seconds and broke the Asian record.
China's Liu Hong finished fourth, Russia's Kildiyapkina finished fifth, and another Chinese player, Lu Xiuzhi, came in sixth. That is to say, the top six in the competition, there are three Russian players and three Chinese players.
Born on November 11, 1990 in Haiyan County, Haibei Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai Province, Cheyang Shijie is the first Tibetan athlete in China to participate in the Olympic Games and the first Tibetan athlete to win an Olympic medal.
However, a series of changes followed the story.
Project runner-up Kaniskina and fifth-place Kirdiya Pukina were found to be doping violations in 2015 and 2019, respectively, and were disqualified from the London Olympics. Therefore, Cheyang Shijie and Liu Hong were substituted as the second and third places in the London Olympics respectively, and Lu Xiuzhi's ranking also rose to fourth.
Now, Rashmanova has also been banned for two years for drug use (the ban period starts on March 9, 2021), and her matches between February 18, 2012 and January 3, 2014 have been cancelled.
In this way, Cheyangshi sister became the champion of the London Olympic Games! Liu Hong runner-up! Lu Xiuzhi 3rd place! China finished in the top three of the women's 20km race walk at the London Olympics!
In this way, the number of gold medals of the Chinese sports delegation at the London Olympic Games should be 39!
Liu Hong also won gold in the women's 20 km event at Rio 2016 and bronze at the Tokyo Olympics last year.
March 21 was an extraordinary day for Chinese athletics.
On the morning of the same day, the official website of the World Athletics Federation updated the athlete information, and the personal profiles of Chinese sprinters Su Bingtian, Xie Zhenye, Wu Zhiqiang and Tang Xingqiang were all marked as "Olympic bronze medal winners". This means that they have been officially considered the third place winners in the men's 4X100m relay at the Tokyo Olympics (the Chinese team was originally the fourth place in the competition, but the British team member who won the runner-up, Uja, was drugged, and the British team's silver medal was cancelled).
In accordance with the official procedure, the IOC will redistribute and finally confirm the medals based on the IAAF's finally recognized results ranking. At that time, the IOC will conduct a medal re-awarding ceremony through the Chinese Olympic Committee.
Congratulations to the Chinese athletics team! Get a medal clean!