The IOC recently hosted its 139th General Assembly, at which China received 1 good news and 1 bad news. The good news is that the chairman of the IOC Coordination Committee, Samaranch Jr., spoke highly of the hosting of the Beijing Winter Olympics, and at the moment when the epidemic was raging, Beijing still completed the "excellent delivery" of the Winter Olympics, and Samaranch Jr. even said that the Beijing Winter Olympics may be "the best Winter Olympics in the history of the Olympic Movement"!
The bad news is that some people feel that in the 28 events initially determined by the International Olympic Committee for the 2028 Los Angeles Olympic Games, there is no Traditional Gold Medal Winning Advantage event in China!
Weightlifting has always been the dominant project of the Chinese Olympic team, in last year's Tokyo Olympic Games, the Chinese weightlifting team sent a total of 8 athletes to participate, achieved an excellent record of 7 gold and 1 silver, it can be said that as long as the Chinese athletes shoot, the championship is basically ten to nine stable.
However, in April, the Chinese weightlifting team suffered a blow, in the International Olympic Committee released the 2024 Paris Olympic Games weightlifting qualification plan, not only the total number of gold medals reduced to 5 men and women, but also limited the number of participants of each Olympic Committee, each team can only send up to 3 athletes of men and women, which means that even if all the players of the Chinese weightlifting team win the gold, the final number of gold medals is only 6.
However, this is not the end, in the latest International Olympic Committee 139th plenary session, the weightlifting project has been directly removed from the Olympic family, it is foreseeable that in the 2028 Los Angeles Olympic Games, the number of gold medals of the Chinese team will decline significantly.
The official answer was also given to the reasons why the International Olympic Committee cancelled the weightlifting program. Originally a weightlifting project, it has become a hard-hit area for stimulants in recent years. At the Beijing Olympic Games in 2008, 3 weightlifters were cancelled for taking banned drug gold medals, and by the London Olympic Games in 2012, the number of weightlifters who had been disqualified from taking banned drugs climbed to 4, and at the Rio Olympics in 2016, Rakhimov was also canceled for taking banned drugs. These black histories that have been revealed in the past have intensified the determination of the IOC to severely punish weightlifting, which has led to the decision that weightlifting has now been kicked out of the Olympic family.
In this regard, many Chinese netizens have expressed their support, and some netizens have left a message: "Physical health is the first, and the weightlifting project is too harmful to the body, and there is no meaning." Another netizen wrote: "It should have been cancelled a long time ago, the movement against human nature, many countries rely on taking banned drugs to fight medals, it is not worth advocating." Some netizens also said: "Weightlifting is too harmful to the athletes, and cancellation is an international call." ”
However, at present, the Olympic project is still only in the preliminary selection stage, and whether weightlifting can be selected for the 2028 Los Angeles Olympic Games is likely to have a clear answer until next year!