Weightlifting 2022 Discussion Thread

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[intoronto 5,635]

Looks like weightlifting is trying its hardest to not be an Olympic sport (thread follows in the tweets)

 

[JoshMartini007 2,536]

Perhaps they feel the IOC won't remove them

 

Ignoring internal politics from sport federations and only taking into account the number of nations which compete regularly weightlifting is quite widespread. Not athletics/basketball/football widespread, but well above many less inclusive sports so they think the IOC is bluffing. The IOC being relatively lenient over the years probably makes them more confident.

 

Even in the worst case scenario where the IOC does kick them out and they finally clean house the sport will be welcomed back by the next Olympics so there is little long term concern for the current management to push the edge.

 

If this was modern pentathlon behaving this way, they would have been kicked out long ago and possibly never return.

[Dragon 1,844]

Nijat Rahimov  has been stripped of his gold medal from the Rio Olympics.

China, Egypt and Thailand move up a place in the medals.

[Fly_like_a_don 1,089]

1 hour ago, Dragon said:

Nijat Rahimov  has been stripped of his gold medal from the Rio Olympics.

China, Egypt and Thailand move up a place in the medals.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/olympics.nbcsports.com/2021/01/19/weightlifting-doping-nijat-rahimov/amp/

 

It took 1 year + 2 months to announce the ban formally. 

[Olympian1010 7,971]

 

[Dunadan 1,103]

China is barely partecipating - or being completely absent- in many international summer sports anymore in the last months, is it all due to covid? Not really believable 

[dcro 10,210]

5 hours ago, Dunadan said:

China is barely partecipating - or being completely absent- in many international summer sports anymore in the last months, is it all due to covid? Not really believable 

Yeah, their Winter program got basically cancelled immediately after Beijing...

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5 hours ago, Dunadan said:

China is barely partecipating - or being completely absent- in many international summer sports anymore in the last months, is it all due to covid? Not really believable 

It's covid, China is just being responsible that's why they don't have 100k cases a day. They don't plan to live with covid unlike most countries.

[JoshMartini007 2,536]

East Asian countries take Covid very seriously, plus it doesn't help that there's a huge outbreak in China