On March 22, the IAAF Integrity Committee AIU confirmed that the gold medal for the women's 20 km race walk at the 2012 London Olympics by Russian race walker Elena Rushmanova was officially cancelled. At the London Olympics, Russian and Chinese athletes finished in the top six women's 20 km walks. Now that all three Russian players have fallen due to drug bans, Chinese dream walkers members Cheyang Shijie, Liu Hong and Lu Xiuzhi will be relegated to gold, silver and bronze.
On the 21st, the Chinese men's sprint relay team led by Su Bingtian has just confirmed that it has won the bronze medal in the men's 100-meter relay of the Tokyo Olympic Games, and the Chinese women's race walking team has won belated justice. In the london Olympics athletics women's 20km race walk final a decade ago, Athletes from Russia and China finished in the top six. Russia's Rushmanova and Kanikina won the championship and runners-up, and China's Cheyangsh sister won the bronze medal. Famous Liu Hong finished fourth, Kierjiapujina finished fifth, and Lu Xiuzhi finished sixth.
Four years later, the IAAF announced that Russia's Kanishkina and Kiljapkina had both been disqualified for testing positive for doping. Sister Qieyang Shi won the silver medal, Liu Hong won the bronze medal, and Lu Xiuzhi won the fourth place.
In fact, London women's race walking champion Rushmanova was confirmed to take banned drugs as early as 2014, but the verdict on whether to deprive her of her London Olympic gold medal has been delayed. Now, the IAAF has confirmed that all of Rushmanova's achievements between February 18, 2012 and January 3, 2014, including the gold medal in the women's 20 km race walk at the 2012 London Olympics and the 2013 World Championships, have been withdrawn. With Rushmanova also being cancelled for doping, China's Cheyang Shijie, Liu Hong and Lu Xiuzhi won the gold, silver and bronze medals in the project ten years later.
After getting her own bid to win the Olympic gold, Sister Cheyang Shi also posted through personal social media: "Ten years have passed, and I have welcomed my Olympic champion (in this way), and I am happy and sad after learning the news." Happy that I can be the champion in my heart, happy that I can have an Olympic gold medal, although many things have passed and will not have, but I have the medal to prove myself. The sad thing is that I have not felt the appearance of a champion, I have not won the aura of an Olympic champion, although the aura is temporary, but the aura of that moment I want to have, I did not get the self-value that I may be able to get, but the past has passed, and I am still trying to get it. Now ten years have passed, to the age of everything is looked down upon, tomorrow will still be a "new beginning, the beginning of zero", thank you for your support and blessings for me for so many years, I wish you and I are healthy, peaceful and happy. Tashi Delek! ”
Text/Beiqing Sports Chu Peng