On March 23, 2022, Beijing time, the official website of the International Court of Arbitration for Sport issued a notice saying that all his medals, points and prizes between March 15, 2016 and January 18, 2021 were withdrawn due to the violation of relevant anti-doping regulations by Kazakhstan's Rashimov, the men's weightlifting champion at the Rio Olympics. This also means that Lu Xiaojun, a Chinese athlete who won the silver medal in the event that year, is about to make up for the gold medal in the men's weightlifting 77 kg category at the Rio Olympics.
Lu Xiaojun, a famous Chinese weightlifter and known as the "god of war" by the outside world, has previously won gold medals in weightlifting at the London Olympics and the Tokyo Olympic Games. This time he won the Rio Olympic gold medal! The 38-year-old "god of war" Lu Xiaojun will achieve the feat of winning the Olympic Games for three consecutive times!
It is not easy to win a gold medal in one Olympic Games, and it is too difficult to win the championship in three consecutive Olympic Games! The Chinese team has only won three consecutive Olympic championships in the world's unrivaled table tennis team, and no one has ever achieved it in individual events. Therefore, this time Lü Xiaojun will create a new history. Yesterday, he was so excited that he posted on his personal social media: "Thank you for your concern and blessings! At present, we are still waiting for the official news of the International Olympic Committee and the International Federation of Lifting, and I would like to thank the Chinese Association for its continuous attention to this matter. I hope that everyone will continue to pay attention to China's weightlifting, the miracle comes from the same efforts as always, China weightlifting, come on! ”
Born in Hubei in 1984, Lu Xiaojun is 38 years old this year. He entered the sports school at the age of 14 to practice weightlifting; in 2002, he was selected for the Tianjin weightlifting team; in 2009, Lu Xiaojun became famous in that year's Weightlifting World Championships, not only winning the gold medal in the men's 77 kg competition but also breaking the world record. Since then, he has successively won a series of major championships such as the World Championships, the Asian Championships, and the Asian Games. At the 2012 London Olympics, Lu Xiaojun ushered in the highlight of his sports career, breaking the world record and winning the gold medal with a total score of 379 kg in the weightlifting men's 77 kg competition.
At the 2016 Rio Olympics, Lu Xiaojun played well, winning the silver medal with a total score of 379 kg. In the tackle stage, he also managed to lift a world record of 177 kg. But he weighed slightly heavier than Kazakh Khalimov, who lifted the same weight, and in fact Khalimov had a larger shaking movement when he lifted the barbell, but the referee ignored this flaw. In the end, Lü Xiaojun could only regret to be the runner-up.
After the defeat in the defense of the Rio Olympics, Lu Xiaojun, who did not accept defeat, gave up the original idea of retiring and decided to fight for another Olympic Games, and must win back the gold medal that he regretted losing. Since then, he has buried his regrets in his heart, overcome the problem of injuries and illnesses and the difficulty of adjusting the level of weightlifting participation in the Olympic Games by the International Lifting Federation, and has gone all out to train and prepare for the battle. In the men's 81 kg final of the Tokyo Olympic Games held last year, Lu Xiaojun won the championship with a total score of 374 kg, of which the snatch, deadlift, and total results all broke the Olympic records.
Over the years, Lu Xiaojun has been able to devote himself wholeheartedly to training competitions, and has won gold three times in the Olympic Games, which is inseparable from the efforts of his family behind him. Lü Xiaojun's wife is with him, a beautiful hercules named Guo Xiyan, and the two already have a pair of lovely children. Guo Xiyan is a former member of the national weightlifting team, who has won the World Youth Championship and the World University Games champion. Although she is a female weightlifter, Guo Xi has a good face and a good figure, which is a good match for Olympic champion Lu Xiaojun!
On December 1, 2013, Lu Xiaojun and his girlfriend held a grand wedding at a large hotel. World champions Liao Hui, Su Dajin and Wu Jingbiao formed a luxury groomsmen group, and Ma Wenguang, chairman of the China Weightlifting Association, and Li Kemin, director of the Tianjin Municipal Sports Bureau, attended the wedding. After marriage, Lü Xiaojun and his wife had a son and a daughter.
Lu Xiaojun is about to make up for the gold medal and achieve three consecutive Olympic championships, and everyone has also sent blessings to the veteran. From winning the gold medal for the first time in the London Olympic Games, to realizing the dream of the Tokyo Olympic Games again, and then to making up for the regrets of the Rio Olympic Games now, Lu Xiaojun, who never conceded defeat, has been tenaciously fighting on the field. In an interview, he also bluntly said that the judgment of the International Court of Arbitration for Sport has changed his original plan, and the four consecutive Olympic championships have become his new goal!