Weightlifting has always been the strength of the Chinese team, but now, the status of weightlifting in the Olympic Games has been weakened. The latest IOC regulations allow each team to send up to 3 men and 3 men, and each level is limited to 1 person. This means that at the Paris Olympics, the Chinese weightlifting team can only send up to 6 people to participate, and can only win 6 gold medals at most. At the Tokyo Olympics, the Chinese team participated in 8 players and won 7 gold and 1 silver.
In 1984, China returned to the Olympic family, and in the Olympic Games, China won 4 golds in weightlifting. At the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, China won 2 gold medals in weightlifting. At the 2000 Sydney Olympics and the 2004 Athens Olympics, China won 5 gold medals in weightlifting. In the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, China's weightlifting created brilliant achievements and won 8 golds! At the 2012 London Olympics and the 2016 Rio Olympics, the Chinese weightlifting team won 5 gold medals. At the Tokyo Olympics, China won 7 gold medals in weightlifting.
Counting the gold medals won by Lu Xiaojun, as of now, the Chinese weightlifting team has won 42 gold medals in the Olympic games, which is an absolute gold medalist.
But now, the International Olympic Committee has officially announced that each team can send up to 3 men and women, and each level is limited to 1 person. In other words, the Chinese team can only send 6 weightlifters to participate in the Paris Olympic Games, and can only win up to 6 gold medals.
For the Chinese weightlifting team and the Chinese sports delegation, this is not a small blow.
On the one hand, the performance of the Chinese weightlifting team at the Paris Olympic Games is doomed to fail to surpass the Tokyo Olympic Games. On the other hand, the competition within the Chinese weightlifting team will be more intense, many athletes have been practicing weightlifting for so many years, they originally had the opportunity to go to the Olympic arena to compete for gold and silver, but now, the opportunity may not be there.
Some people also believe that the number of gold medals in swimming should be reduced, after all, in the single event of swimming, excellent athletes can often get 6 or 7 gold medals.
But there is no way, the Chinese weightlifting team can only accept the reality, now, the Paris Olympic Games can only compete for 6 gold, then the goal of the Chinese team is to get all of them, without regrets.