On April 20, Beijing time, the International Olympic Committee recently released the qualification plan for weightlifting at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games. In addition to the previously determined reduction in the total number of gold medals to 5 for men and 5 for each, the number of participants in each Olympic Committee has once again been limited: each team can send up to 3 men and 3 men, and each level is limited to 1 person. In other words, each Olympic Committee can only win a maximum of 6 weightlifting gold medals.
The weightlifting levels for the 2024 Paris Olympic Games are set as follows: men: 61kg, 73kg, 89kg, 102kg, +102kg, women: 49kg, 59kg, 71kg, 81kg, +81kg.
You know, the Chinese weightlifting team has always been a gold medalist in the Olympic games, since participating in the Olympic Games has won 38 gold medals, from the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games to the 2021 Tokyo Olympic Games, during a total of 6 consecutive Olympic Games, the Chinese weightlifting team has won at least 5 gold medals each time, and the Tokyo Olympics has won 7 gold medals in one go. It can be said that the Chinese weightlifting team has long been the main force of the Gold Medal of the Chinese sports team in the Olympic Games.
Nowadays, the Chinese weightlifting team has been targeted, and under the influence of a number of new regulations, it is very difficult for China to participate in the Olympic Games in the future to achieve a competition and win more than 5 gold.
It is worth noting that this is not the first time that Chinese sports projects have been targeted in the Olympic Games, in the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, China's national table tennis won gold medals including men's team, women's team and 4 individual events, of which in the men's and women's singles events, all won gold, silver and bronze medals, Zhang Yining, Wang Nan and Guo Yue won the top three women's singles, and Ma Lin, Wang Hao and Wang Liqin won the top three men's singles. At that time, the national table tennis was enough to go down in history and raise three Chinese flags at the same time, and twice.
In order to limit the strength of China's national table tennis, the Olympic Committee officially changed the rules, and in each future Olympic Games' singles event, each team can only send 2 players, which means that it is impossible for the national table tennis to raise three flags at the same time again. It is funny that even if the official is so aimed at China's national table tennis, the table tennis singles gold medals of the 3 Olympic Games since the Beijing Olympic Games have all been won by Chinese national table tennis players, and the national table tennis still has dominance!
Obviously, it is the turn of the restricted team to face the Chinese weightlifting team, and in the face of this change, the Chinese weightlifting team needs to adapt as soon as possible and strive for the best results in theory as soon as possible under the new rules.
Because of the obvious sense of targeting, some netizens said that they could not afford to play with the change of the rules of the Olympic Committee: "It is recommended that athletics and swimming also follow this rule" "Really can't afford to play" "Can't afford to play, the Tokyo Olympic Games only feel good about weightlifting" "Learn from the table tennis federation?" ”
For the Chinese weightlifting team, when the rules of the game have changed, as a group of athletes, they can only start from the perspective of adapting to the new rules, cannot compete with the general environment, and can only force themselves to adapt to the environment!
(Lin Xiaoxiang)