On April 2, Beijing time, the International Olympic Committee officially announced the full schedule of the 2024 Paris Olympic Games. The first gold event of the Paris Olympics, of course, is still shooting, when the Chinese shooting team will once again launch an attack on the first gold. However, due to the shrinkage of small projects, china's weightlifting dream team has also been hit hard.
According to the schedule, the Paris Olympics will open on July 26 and close on August 11, 2024. Of course, official competitions, such as football, will be contested on July 24. At the Paris Olympic Games, there were 32 major events, 329 minor events, 762 competition units and a total of 19 competition days.
On the first day after the opening ceremony, that is, on July 27, the first gold of the Olympic Games will be born, and the first gold event will still be shooting.
As we all know, in the past Olympic Games, the Chinese team has won the first gold medal many times, like Du Li in Athens in 2004, Yi Siling in London in 2012, and Yang Qian in Tokyo in 2021. It is worth mentioning that these first gold winners, their projects are women's ten-meter air rifles. In Paris in 2024, the Chinese shooting team will once again launch an attack towards the first gold, and if there is no accident, Yang Qian will play as the defending champion and look forward to her performance.
In addition to the women's 10m air rifle, the first competition day will also produce a number of gold medals, and the sports involved include cycling, judo, fencing, swimming, weightlifting and so on. Among them, weightlifting, as our traditional advantage project, has a very high degree of attention. However, this time in the Paris Olympic Games, the weightlifting project has been seriously reduced, which will be a big blow to us.
As we all know, at last year's Tokyo Olympic Games, the Chinese weightlifting team participated in 8 events and won 7 gold and 1 silver, creating the best result in history. However, by the time of the Paris Olympics, weightlifting will be reduced from 14 to 10, and at the same time, the number of teams will also be reduced. According to the regulations, the Chinese team can only participate in a maximum of 6 events. Moreover, several advantageous projects have been cancelled directly.
Like Chen Lijun's 67 kg class and Lü Xiaojun's 81 kg class, they will disappear directly. For both players, either gain weight to challenge the larger level or lose weight to participate in a smaller level. Of course, it is also a question whether Lu Xiaojun, who will be 40 years old at that time, will still participate in the competition. If he can participate and win the championship again, then the feat of four consecutive Olympic championships will be unprecedented, and it will be difficult to come later.