In the early morning of March 23, China's famous weightlifter Lu Xiaojun ushered in good news. Since the original gold medalist of the Rio Olympic Games was found to have taken banned drugs, banned and cancelled his results, Lu Xiaojun will win the gold medal in a supplementary manner, thus achieving three consecutive Olympic championships.
The Men's 77 kg men's weightlifting title at the Rio Olympics was won by Nidzat Rasimov, but now the Court of Arbitration for Sport has announced that Nidzat Rasimov will be banned for eight years for using banned drugs. At the same time, all his results from March 15, 2016 to January 18, 2021 were cancelled. This means that China's famous Lu Xiaojun will win the gold medal in this category of the Rio Olympic Games, thus achieving three consecutive Olympic championships.
At the London Olympics, Lu Xiaojun won the men's weightlifting 77 kg championship. At the Tokyo Olympics held last year, the 37-year-old Lu Xiaojun broke the Olympic record with 170 kilograms of snatching and won the gold medal in 204 kilograms of deadlift. As a result, Lu Xiaojun became the oldest weightlifting champion in Olympic history and the only player in the Chinese weightlifting team to participate in three consecutive Olympic games.
Now that he has won three consecutive Olympic titles, Lu Xiaojun's career is even more legendary. But he previously said that he has more expectations for the future and hopes to stand on the stage of the Paris Olympic Games.
Source: The Paper, People's Daily Sports Report
Editors: Yang Yu, Yang Ye
Review: Lu Jiaqi
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