In the 73 kg final of the Tokyo Olympic Games, the less than 29-year-old weightlifter Shi Zhiyong can be described as a famous player, in the case of having won the championship, shouted "the next 198", and finally Shi Zhiyong broke the world record with a total score of 364 kg, winning the 12th gold medal for the Chinese delegation, and Shi Zhiyong also became the third athlete to win weightlifting gold medals in two consecutive Olympic Games after Zhan Xugang and Chen Yanqing. Just when Shi Zhiyong won the championship, zhan Xugang, a coach thousands of miles away, was leading the teachers and students of Zhejiang Sports Technology Institute to watch the game together, and also witnessed Shi Zhiyong's "heroic" victory, and Zhan Xugang, who had always been very calm in the middle of the first row after winning the championship, also showed a long-lost smile, presumably in his opinion, It is normal for Shi Zhiyong to win the championship in the 73 kg competition.
I have to say that after the retirement of the Athens Olympics in 2004, Zhan Xugang has maintained a very good figure so far and has never been deformed, which shows that Zhan Xugang has always insisted on exercising, and the iconic small beard is still retained. The 47-year-old Zhan Xugang is not unfamiliar to many people, as the first athlete in the history of the Olympic Games to win the weightlifting event, quite respected by the outside world, the Sydney Olympic Games are earth-shattering reversals, the Athens Olympic Games are sorry to be able to defend the title at an advanced age, but the spirit of Zhan Xugang has inspired many people, which is also an important reason why Zhan Xugang is still quite loved. In the first year after retiring, Zhan Xugang married his flight attendant girlfriend who had been in love for many years, and since then, Zhan Xugang has rarely appeared and chose to return to the Zhejiang Hangzhou Sports Bureau as a coach, and Shi Zhiyong was cultivated by Zhan Xugang.
During the training of Shi Zhiyong, Zhan Xugang also served as a deputy county magistrate, and his work was also very busy, but Shi Zhiyong won gold medals at the 2015 World Championships and the 2016 Rio Olympic Games, and Zhan Xugang also became a champion coach. After winning the championship, Shi Zhiyong also thanked his mentor Zhan Xugang and said that he had finally continued his master's dream of winning the championship. After 2017, Zhan Xugang successively served as the vice president and dean of Zhejiang Sports Vocational and Technical College, and since then, Zhan Xugang has rarely appeared in addition to business activities. In addition, during Zhan Xugang's tenure at the school, he was a colleague with Olympic champions such as Zhou Suhong and Luo Xuejuan, and then Zhou Suhong was promoted to the provincial Youth League Committee, and Luo Xuejuan also resigned and left. However, in 2019, Zhan Xugang recommended Sun Yang as the deputy director of the school's training department, adding another Olympic champion to the school.
At the Time of the London and Rio Olympics, the Chinese Weightlifting Corps once fell into a trough and did not achieve the expected results, after all, the Chinese weightlifting team, diving team, and table tennis team all have the reputation of "Dream Team", and have won championships in world competitions many times, which is a popular project for Chinese sports delegations to win championships. On the eve of the London Olympics, the coach of the women's weightlifting team Ma Wenhui resigned from the coaching position, after the London Olympics, Ma Wenguang, who served as the director of the wrestling center for many years, was transferred, and the weightlifting team began to rebuild, and finally ushered in the outbreak in the Tokyo Olympic Games, and now the weightlifting team has won 4 gold and 1 silver impressive results, and the probability of winning the subsequent competition is still very large. However, in recent years, the International Lifting Federation has been embroiled in controversy over alleged bribery and doping, and the Paris Olympics have cancelled several small events, which has no small impact on Chinese weightlifters.