China has since ancient times has a hegemonic saying, which also means that compared with other countries, we Chinese athletes are dominant in terms of strength, weightlifting has thus become China's dominant event, every Olympic Games, weightlifters will add a lot of heavy gold medals to our honor list, just like this year's Tokyo Olympic Games, China's weightlifters swept almost every event gold medal. However, although our country's weightlifting is very powerful, it will still fall into a certain dilemma. Whenever this happens, our weightlifters will uphold the spirit of never giving up, and they will lift the weight beyond themselves and explain what is the birthplace of miracles!
As the representative of the Chinese weightlifting team, Lu Xiaojun showed absolute dominance at the London Olympic Games as early as 12 years, when he broke the world record at the time and became the gold medalist of the London Olympic Games. At the 2021 Tokyo Olympic Games nine years later, Lu Xiaojun, who is 37 years old and injured, can be described as old and strong, he once again stood on the stage of the final with amazing perseverance and strength, and then won this extraordinary gold medal with two new Olympic records of 204 kg and a total of 374 kg. At the age of 37, you can continue to maintain the peak level to win the gold medal, your uncle is really your uncle, and the name of the military god is indeed worthy of the name.
Unlike the Chinese weightlifting team's easy gold medal at this year's Olympic Games, Chen Lijun's 67 kg gold medal is really hard-won. Chen Lijun, who had missed the Rio Olympics because of cramps, had to wait for the Tokyo Olympics, but he played abnormally in the first half of the final, making two mistakes in the grasp, trailing his opponent by as much as 11 kilograms. There was no way, Chen Lijun could only choose to make a desperate bet, adding the barbell to 187 kg. In the face of a backwater battle, Chen Lijun lived up to expectations, squatting, exerting force, rushing up, lifting the top, successfully rewriting the total score to 332 kilograms, completing the miracle turnover with a difference of one point, and winning the Olympic gold medal that was 5 years late.
As a gold medalist in the 1996 Olympic Games, Zhan Xugang, who went to the Sydney Olympic Games in 2000, was undoubtedly the gold point of the Chinese weightlifting team. However, the wind and rain are unpredictable, and Zhan Xugang, who has entered the final, suddenly declined, and even the coaching team's bottom-up grasp of 165 kg is difficult to achieve, after the end of the grasp link, Zhan Xugang's ranking fell to fourth, almost announcing his lack of the top two ending. But for Zhan Xugang, who aspires to win glory for the country, he obviously will not accept this reality. So when Zhan Xu just finished his 202.5 kg extreme lift weight, he chose to raise the weight to 207.5 kg in the final deadlift, a number he had never challenged before! But then, like Xiang Yu, who once pulled up the mountain and was full of strength, Zhan Xugang miraculously lifted this impossible weight, achieved a super turnover, and showed the world what is China's power!
There is no doubt that in the 75 kg women's weightlifting event that year, Tang Gonghong was an invincible existence in the world. However, what everyone did not expect was that Zhang Meilan from South Korea actually stood out in the final of the 2004 Athens Olympic Games, causing unprecedented pressure to the invincible Tang Gonghong. And when Zhang Meilan completed the 172.5 kg deadlift, she directly rushed down from the stage and celebrated with the coach in advance, because if Tang Gonghong wanted to win gold, she had to lift 182.5 kg, and the South Korean team did not believe that she could not even lift 172.5 kg to complete this feat. At this time, Tang Gonghong can be said to have reached the edge of life and death choices, after all, such a weight is already the limit of the limit, and it is difficult to pay the price of blood. But Tang Gonghong chose to face this impossible task, only to see her slowly crouch down, and then raised the devil's barbell with a resolute look, and won the supreme honor for the Chinese team with a shocking move, at this moment, Tang Gonghong was the miracle itself!