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14 hours ago, MHSN said:

It seems IOC wants IWF to drop 94kg from the Olympic program just because there were so many dopers in this weight in London 2012 ! really ?! they want to punish a weight class instead of the dopers ?! :facepalm:

 

I hope it's just a naive boutade of a joker inside the IOC...

 

I don't really understand them anymore...they're just killing the world of Sport and the Olympic Games...:facepalm::wall:

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Weightlifting set to adopt new qualification system for Tokyo 2020 based on form

 
 

China's Long Qingquan competes during the men's 56kg weightlifting event at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro ©Getty Images

Weightlifting is set to adopt a new qualification system for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, based on individual performance rather than national teams' aggregated efforts at major championships.

A three-day meeting of the International Weightlifting Federation’s (IWF) Sport Programme Commission (SPC) concluded that there were clear benefits in making the switch, especially in tightening doping controls and encouraging top athletes to compete more often.

Two of China's Olympic champions last summer, Long Qingquan at 56 kilograms and Shi Ziyong at 69kg, competed in IWF-sanctioned events only three times each in the four years between 2012 and 2016.

"Athletes will be required to regularly participate in Olympic qualification competitions to ensure that they are regularly subjected to in-competition doping control," said an IWF statement.

"The shortened period would also make anti-doping testing easier to implement and more cost-effective."

Zhiyong Shi, of China, competes during the men's 69kg Group A weightlifting contest at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games ©Getty Images Zhiyong Shi, of China, competes during the men's 69kg Group A weightlifting contest at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games ©Getty Images

It remains to be seen how often an individual will be expected to compete in the new qualifying system, though one National Federation President said he expected it to be six times, which would "make doping much, much harder - almost impossible".

There were misgivings expressed by many "clean" coaches and lifters about the prolonged absence of Ilya Ilyin, the world-record breaking 94kg lifter who competed only twice between winning gold at Beijing 2008 and London 2012.

At one point Ilyin was absent from competition for more than two years.

When samples from those two Games were retested by the International Olympic Committee (IOC), Ilyin came up positive both times and forfeited his two gold medals.

The SPC, meeting in the "Olympic capital" Lausanne, also decided that new bodyweight categories should be introduced, seven each for men and women for Tokyo; that Olympic team sizes should be a maximum of eight, four male and four female, rather than the 10 in Rio, six males, four females; that only one athlete per nation, rather than two, should compete in any weight category; and that field sizes should be limited to 14, with no B Groups.

Details of the new bodyweight categories are yet to be finalised.

Qualification for Rio 2016, over a period of two years, was heavily weighted towards teams.

Ilya Ilyin of Kazakhstan sets a new world record and wins the gold medal in the men's 94kg weightlifting final at the London 2012 Olympic Games ©Getty Images  Ilya Ilyin of Kazakhstan sets a new world record and wins the gold medal in the men's 94kg weightlifting final at the London 2012 Olympic Games ©Getty Images

For example, six Olympic quota places were awarded to the top six nations in team classification at the World Championships, and further places could be earned by team performance in Continental Championships.

The SPC's recommendations will be presented to the IWF Executive Board for approval during their next meeting in Anaheim, California on November 25 and 26, just before the start of the IWF World Championships.

Attila Adamfi, the IWF's director general who sits on the SPC, said: "We have had a very productive meeting here in Lausanne as we work towards ensuring that the IWF delivers the very best, clean weightlifting competitions at Tokyo 2020.

"We want to make sure that we are protecting the integrity of our sport and also provide the most engaging and exciting competitions for our athletes and fans.

"We have had very good cooperation with the IOC and are continuing to work closely with them.

"The IWF takes its responsibility to the Olympic Movement very seriously and is committed to promoting Olympic values around the world.

"While our primary focus is of course on the next Olympic Games, we are also examining opportunities to innovate our sport further, which will go beyond the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.

"We are assessing new bodyweight categories, new formats, and new disciplines, all of which will make our sport more appealing, particularly to younger audiences."

The other four members of the SPC are Nicu Vlad, an Olympic champion for Romania in 1984 who is a vice-president of the IWF and chairs its Technical Committee; Reiko Chinen, from Japan, a Technical Committee member and weightlifting manager for Tokyo 2020; Tom Goegebuer, athlete representative, triple Olympian and President of the Belgian Weightlifting Federation; and Matthew Curtain, a former weightlifting official who is now director of sport and International Federation relations for the Commonwealth Games Federation.

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I'm absolutely in favor of the individual qualification (instead of a team ranking) for any single lifter, but I'm totally against anything else they've come up with in this meeting...

in particular, I really don't see the need to have the same amount of weight classes for men and women and I hate those limit to only 4 athletes per NOC if they're going to have 7 weight classes (I'm not even convinced of the 1 lifter per NOC per category, yet...but this is something that could be more acceptable in the end than the other silly options)...

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