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On April 19, Beijing time, the International Olympic Committee released the qualification plan for weightlifting at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games. Following the determination of the reduction level at the beginning of the month, the announcement of the Olympic qualification acquisition plan has further reduced the number of participants in the Olympic Committees. As the "big gold medalist" in China's Olympic team, the Chinese national weightlifting team is obviously facing no small challenge.
At the beginning of April, the International Olympic Committee set the competition schedule and level setting for the weightlifting event at the Paris Olympic Games, and the status of the weightlifting event in the Olympic Games was again hit. While the Tokyo Olympics will have 7 weightlifting events for men and 14 weight classes, the Paris Olympics will be reduced to 5 male and 5 for a total of 10 heavyweights, while the number of participants in the weightlifting event will also drop sharply from 196 at the Tokyo Olympics to 120 in Paris.
The paris olympic weightlifting qualification plan released on April 19, Beijing time, further reduced the number of participants in the Olympic Committees: the full number of seats was reduced from 4 men and 4 men and 8 people at the Tokyo Olympic Games to 3 men and women, a total of 6 people, and up to 1 person in each level. At the Tokyo Olympic Games, the Chinese weightlifting team competed with 8 people and won 7 gold and 1 silver. In the Paris cycle, the number of participants was limited to 6 people, which means that the Chinese weightlifting team is doomed to fail to reproduce the impressive record of the Tokyo Olympic Games in terms of the number of medals.
The major adjustment of the level setting will inevitably have a huge impact on the Olympic preparation of the Chinese weightlifting team. Of the 10 classes at the Paris Olympics, only the men's 61 and 73 kg classes and the women's 49 and 59 kg classes were retained. The maximum weight class for men and women was adjusted from the men's 109 kg class in Tokyo to the 102 kg class in Paris, and the women's class from 87 kg to 81 kg, but this was only a numerical fine-tuning and would not have much substantial impact on athletes who were already weighing above these figures. However, the men's 89, 102 kg and women's 71 and 81 kg classes are all non-Olympic in the Tokyo cycle, that is to say, in the past Olympic cycle, there are not many athletes practicing these heavyweights, not to mention, the Tokyo Olympic Games have been postponed for one year, which is equivalent to shortening the cycle of preparing for the Paris Olympic Games by 1 year, adjusting the original non-Olympic level to the Olympic level, and testing the reserve thickness of athletes.
Specific to the Chinese weightlifting team, only 3 of the 8 Tokyo Olympians were retained in the 49 kg category, namely Hou Zhihui's women's 49 kg, Li Fabin's men's 61 kg and Shi Zhiyong's men's 73 kg class. Li Wenwen participated in the 87 kg or over at the Tokyo Olympics, and the 81 kg or over at the Paris Olympics still applies to her. The remaining 4 players, Chen Lijun, Lü Xiaojun, Wang Zhouyu and Liao Qiuyun, have been removed from the competition level of the Paris Olympic Games, and if they want to continue to compete, they will either gain weight or lose weight, and they can only compete instead. For example, Wang Zhouyu, the women's 87 kg champion at the Tokyo Olympics, has decided to lose weight to the 81 kg class. Of course, even former Olympic champions face fierce competition with other opponents after changing the level of participation. Under the premise that men and women can only send up to 3 people each, the Chinese weightlifting team is bound to tend to send athletes with higher success rates to participate.
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The project being cut will definitely affect our gold winning point and also pose a difficult problem for the platooning of The Chinese weightlifting team. In the selection process of careful selection and excellence, the competition within the team will be more cruel.
——Chinese national weightlifting team coach Wang Guoxin
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At present, the national weightlifting team has been transferred from Wuzhishan in Hainan to Ningbo, Zhejiang, and the team has been training at the Yinjiang base to prepare for the national weightlifting championships and Asian Games selection tournament to be held in June. It is worth noting that Tokyo Olympic gold medalists Shi Zhiyong, Chen Lijun, Hou Zhihui, Li Fabin, Li Wenwen, etc., all entered the Yinjiang base with the team and quickly entered a new stage of training.
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The Paris Olympic cycle is relatively short, we must strengthen the special ability, improve the stability of the test and success rate, etc., and will also combine high-stage training, team testing and other ways to increase the actual combat opportunities for the team members.
——Zhang Guozheng, head coach of the women's team of the Chinese national weightlifting team
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For the Chinese national weightlifting team, the adjustment of the level setting and the restriction of the number of participants are certainly no small challenge, but this is not the first time that this "gold medal division" has responded to similar changes, and China's weightlifting talent reserves at all levels are relatively perfect and capable of coping with the challenges of the Paris cycle. Although the Chinese weightlifting team has been unable to surpass the glorious record of 7 gold and 1 silver in the Tokyo Olympic Games, the spirit of Chinese Hercules to challenge the limit and pursue the goal of winning the gold "hit rate" will never change.
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