Although the Tokyo Olympics have been less than a year in the past, all the Olympic delegations around the world have already been put into preparation for the new Olympic cycle, and there are only about 2 years left before the 2024 Paris Olympics, and the preparation time is already very tight.
However, in recent days, the International Olympic Committee has issued a heavy news, and the Chinese Olympic delegation has been mischievously calculated! The International Olympic Committee announced that in the case of the previous announcement that the Olympic weightlifting gold medal was reduced to 5 gold medals in the men's and women's events, there is now a new limit, and the number of participants in the Olympic delegations of various countries can send up to 3 men and women teams per team, and each level is also limited to 1 person, which means that the national Olympic Committees can only win up to 6 weightlifting gold medals!
Earlier, when the International Olympic Committee announced that the number of gold medals in the Paris Olympic Games had plummeted, many People in China thought that the International Olympic Committee had the intention of targeting the Chinese Olympic delegation, but they did not expect that more stringent regulations came again, and the weightlifting teams of various countries in the world could only send up to 6 athletes to participate in the competition, and strictly required that only one athlete at each level participate, which was a heavy blow for the Chinese Olympic delegation and the weightlifting team!
In the history of the Olympic Games, the Chinese weightlifting team has won a total of 38 gold, and since the Sydney Olympic Games in 2000, the Chinese weightlifting team has won at least 5 gold every year, so the Chinese weightlifting team is also known as the dream team by weightlifting fans around the world! At last year's Tokyo Olympic Games, 8 athletes of the Chinese weightlifting team participated in the competition, and won a total of 7 gold and 1 silver! The Chinese Olympic team at the Tokyo Olympics narrowed a gold medal to equal the United States, which ranked first in the gold medal table.
Seeing here, many sports fans should understand why the IOC has to take the weightlifting project, and it is a continuous restructuring! Previously only to reduce the number of gold medals in weightlifting, may also be aware of the strength of the Chinese weightlifting team, this time the restructuring can be said to be fatal to the Chinese weightlifting team, from the number of male and female teams, even fine to each level of each team can only send one athlete, the Chinese weightlifting team not only the number of gold medals to be greatly reduced, many internationally renowned Chinese weightlifters are afraid to retire!
The International Olympic Committee reduces the weightlifting gold medal, limits the number of participants in each delegation, limits the number of participants at all levels, the competition within the Chinese weightlifting team will undoubtedly become more and more fierce, many veterans are still very strong, but because of the restrictions on the number of participants, they can only retire helplessly, and the weightlifting project of the Tokyo Olympic Games has only 1/3 of the level been retained in the Paris Olympic Games, and the remaining 2/3 are new levels, the Chinese weightlifting team not only has to re-adapt, the original dominant level has also been adjusted!
But it should be noted that the targeting of the Chinese weightlifting team is only the beginning, after the Los Angeles Olympic Committee officially announced that in the 28 major events of the 2028 Los Angeles Olympic Games, the weightlifting project has become a temporary event, which means that weightlifting, a long-standing sport, may not appear in the Los Angeles Olympic Games.
At present, the situation of the Chinese weightlifting team is very critical, the 2024 Paris Olympic Games can only send 6 people to participate in the competition, which undoubtedly makes the dominance of the Chinese weightlifting team plummet, the Tokyo Olympic Games won 7 gold and 1 silver, and by the 2024 Paris Olympic Games, it is possible to get 4 golds, even if it is high incense, and then there is no weightlifting project in 2028 It is not easy to say!