At the Tokyo Olympics, there was a gold medal that the Chinese team should never lose, this gold medal came from the women's 55 kg event in the weightlifting event, when China's famous world record holder Liao Qiuyun competed.
Why do we say this gold medal should not be lost? First of all, before Liao Qiuyun played, the Chinese weightlifting team Dream Team won several gold medals in a row, without losing a hand. We won the championship in the women's 49 kg class, Hou Zhihui successfully won the championship, and in the men's 61 kg class and 67 kg class, Li Fabin and Chen Lijun all won the championship, so the Chinese dream team at that time played quite well, and the continuous big package made people see that our weightlifting was still invincible. It was a pity that we lost unexpectedly in the 55 kg class.
In the 55 kg category, the snatch lift plus the total result of the three world records, all of which are held by China, the world record of the snatch event belongs to our Li Yajun, her result is 102 kg, and in the deadlift event is Liao Qiuyun's 129 kg, and the total result of 227 kg is also created by her, all of which are and are not particularly long records, all created in the 2019 competition at that time. As a result, in this competition, Liao Qiuyun's snatch score was 126 kg, which was about three kg worse than her world record, and then the total result was 223, which was 4 kg less than her world record. So why is this happening? First of all, let me tell you about the specific situation in the competition at that time, in the snatching link, Liao Qiuyun's main competitor at that time was Diaz in the Philippines, and both of them were tied for second place with 97 kg.
As a result, in the deadlift session, Diaz was playing behind China, so Liao Qiuyun chose how much to choose, and how much to want in the second hand, which became the key. At that time, Liao Qiuyun's side of the handle was 118, in fact, this number was a bit conservative for her, she did not bother to lift it easily, as a result, the Filipinos stared at her, asked for 119, and pressed you a kilogram! Then in the second move, Liao Qiuyun wanted 123, and the opponent wanted 124, or one more kilogram; in the end, in the case of the silver medal basically saved, liao Xiuyun's coach asked her for how much? Asking for 126, 3 kg worse than her world record of 129, Diaz asked for 127, directly lifted up, killed Liao Qiuyun by a kilogram difference, and took the gold medal.
Liao Qiuyun wept bitterly after the game, thinking that this gold medal should not be lost. So why is this happening? Point 1, China's judgment of the opponent at that time made a serious mistake, the official statistical table shows that Diaz her past best result was 121 kg, but the Chinese team did not expect her to dare to rush 124, and even finally dared to ask for 127, more than the best result of 6 kg, which is unimaginable in the weightlifting event, so why is there such a huge deviation? It is because of the epidemic in the past two years that some real games are missing, so the coach of our Chinese team does not have a special understanding of the actual situation of the opponent and the specific progress, resulting in a mistake in judgment.
Second, Liao Qiuyun after the 2019 competition, somewhat plagued by injuries, the head coach Zhang Guozheng believes that her current state may be a bit difficult to cite a 124, so she did not dare to give her upwards, but Liao Qiuyun himself believes that my strength is more than that, after the game while crying while saying so, so it caused the key to such a difference. The third is more intriguing, Diaz's coach is Chinese, before it was also the Chinese weightlifting team, Diaz revealed after returning to China, saying that the Chinese coach once put pressure on her Chinese coach, saying why don't you tell us the real information of Diaz and so on. This remains to be examined, but in any case, this is indeed the gold medal we have lost the most. If we don't lose, we may be tied with the United States on the gold medal table.