The 2019 National Conference of Directors of Sports was held in Beijing on December 26, and the meeting fully deployed the preparations for the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games and the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics. In addition, athletics star Gong Lijiao won the bronze medal in women's shot put at the Beijing Olympic Games, which was 11 years late.
At the 2008 Beijing Olympics, only 19-year-old Gong Lijiao participated in the Olympic Games for the first time, and in the final she threw 19 meters 20 to finish fifth. Later, the two Belarusian athletes mikhnetevich and Ostapchuk who won the second and third places in the 08 Olympics were successively found to be involved in drugs, and Gong Lijiao won the bronze medal for this.
On December 26, Li Lingwei, a member of the International Olympic Committee and former badminton queen, awarded Gong Lijiao a replacement medal. Gong Lijiao said: "Justice and fairness may be sooner or later, but they have never been absent, and they will finish third in the Beijing Olympic Games!" Good luck, the dream is always on the way! ”
It is worth mentioning that Gong Lijiao was also the runner-up in women's shot put at the 2012 London Olympic Games, and the process was even more tortuous - she was first fourth, then third, and finally determined to be the runner-up.
The details are as follows - in the women's shot put final at the 2012 London Olympics, Gong Lijiao finished fourth with a score of 20 meters 22. The winner was Ostapchuk of Belarus, but the latter did not pass the post-match drug test, so Gong Lijiao won the bronze medal. On December 7, 2012, at the Chinese Athletics Night Gala, Gong Lijiao won the bronze medal for the London Olympic Games (below).
In June 2016, the second place in women's shot put at the London Olympic Games (initially third place), the Famous Russian Klodko, tested positive for Chinese medicine in the International Olympic Committee and was stripped of his silver medal. Gong Lijiao's medals changed color again, from bronze to silver. In addition, China's Li Ling, who initially finished fifth, won the bronze medal.
Unfortunately, although Gong Lijiao was a two-time Olympic medalist, he did not participate in the award ceremony at the Olympic Stadium and did not see the national flag raised on the spot. At next year's Tokyo Olympics, Gong Lijiao, who has already won the two-time Athletics World Championships, is determined to win the gold medal. Good luck to Gong Lijiao!