The controversy over North Korea’s late arrival into the Paris 2024
qualifying system has taken another turn because its team of champions
and world record holders has not turned up here for the International
Weightlifting Federation Grand Prix.
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The Olympic medal chances of athletes from around the world have
changed dramatically after China decided not to select Rio 2016 gold
medallist Deng Wei, its leading female athlete in the Tokyo 2020
rankings.
Colombia’s entire team of eight weightlifters faces suspension from
the delayed Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games after a Court of Arbitration for
Sport (CAS) decision.
Friday, 23 April 2021
There was a rare sight at the Asian Weightlifting Championships in Tashkent when the top two finishers in the men’s 96kg failed to match the top two Pan American lifters at the same weight.
The concurrent championships are gold qualifiers for the delayed Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, and the Asians have generally outperformed everybody else - largely because China’s team is so strong.
But in the 96kg Tian Tao, who tops the rankings, and the Iranian world record holder Sohrab Moradi, on his return from injury, were both overshadowed by the efforts 12,000 kilometres away of the Colombian winner Jhonatan Rivas and the improving Canadian Boady Santavy.