Weightlifting 2020 Discussion Thread

[Fly_like_a_don 1,089]

Not very confident of games happening next year but yeah I'll be shocked if Don Opeloge of Samoa doesn't win an Olympic medal in Men's 96kg if it happens next year. Hope he can win the Olympic Gold too if few athletes don't end up participating. 

 

P. S: Great current form should be able to lift 400kg + easily 

[MHSN 3,619]

8 minutes ago, Fly_like_a_don said:

So she's representing Qatar now? 

 

I don't think so because she will miss the Olympics if she switches nationality, her Olympic points belong to Latvia.

[thepharoah 2,405]

6 minutes ago, Fly_like_a_don said:

So she's representing Qatar now? 

 

I don't think so Qatar even doesn't go with international women athletes like Bahrain, I don't know if the Latvian federation is OK with her competing wearing hijab or not,  she had been asked many times if she'll continue competing or but she didn't answer so let's wait and see,  BTW 90% of Egyptian lifters wearing hijab and they win a world and Olympic medals so she can continue competing wearing hijab no problem 

[Grassmarket 3,403]

43 minutes ago, MHSN said:

 

I don't think so because she will miss the Olympics if she switches nationality, her Olympic points belong to Latvia.

But won’t Qatar have a one person automatic spot?

[MHSN 3,619]

Just now, Grassmarket said:

But won’t Qatar have a one person automatic spot?

 

why ? they will qualify one male quota (Fares El-Bakh) but that's it.

 

per new rules athletes win quotas, not NOCS, but they also can't change their NOC in middle of the qualification.

[thepharoah 2,405]

apparently Koha quits weightlifting career 

 

https://eng.lsm.lv/article/culture/sport/champion-weightlifter-koha-quits-sports-career.a369474/?fbclid=IwAR3uQvaEmH6kCkxqqxpLWGnnQw09tKuw223Cja8y-5FB7T5ViNm4LvvpQTc

[MHSN 3,619]

@Vic Liu Do you know anything about Chen Lijun's injury ? I was watching the replay of Chinese Nationals and it looked like a serious injury. will he miss the Olympics ? his gold medal in Tokyo was something like 99% guaranteed

[Vic Liu 1,682]

10 hours ago, MHSN said:

@Vic Liu Do you know anything about Chen Lijun's injury ? I was watching the replay of Chinese Nationals and it looked like a serious injury. will he miss the Olympics ? his gold medal in Tokyo was something like 99% guaranteed

I don't know too much about his injury. I found no news about his injury after the game. So I think it's not a major one more like a normal one. 

[Grassmarket 3,403]

Romanian & Belarussian weightlifters stripped of London 2012 medals following retests.  

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/weightlifting/55071769

 

Amongst the beneficiaries - a lifter from Kazakhstan. 

[intoronto 5,638]

So is Romania now banned from Tokyo 2021? @MHSN