On March 23, Beijing time, the World Anti-Doping Agency announced a blockbuster news, the 2016 Rio Olympics men's 77 kg champion Nijat Rasimov was banned for 8 years for taking doping, at the same time, Rakhimov won the Rio Olympic gold medal was confiscated, and the Chinese famous Lu Xiaojun, who won the runner-up in the competition, won the gold medal!
Many netizens are uneven for Lu Xiaojun, if the opponent is clean and clean, Lu Xiaojun has now stood on the highest podium for three consecutive Olympic Games.
This also explains from another angle why Rasimov's country did not win a gold and silver medal at the Tokyo Olympics, but only 8 bronze medals.
Because, in the three Olympic Games before that, Rakhimov's home country Kazakhstan won a total of 13 gold medals, and 7 of them have been deprived.
At the end of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, Kazakhstan won 2 gold, 4 silver and 7 bronze, and now, Kazakhstan has become 2 gold, 3 silver and 4 bronze in the medal table, losing two weightlifting gold medals and also winning two gold medals.
At the end of the London 2012 Olympic Games, Kazakhstan won 7 gold medals, 1 silver medal and 5 bronze medals. Ten years later, Kazakhstan only had 3 gold medals and 1 silver medal left, but the bronze medal was increased by 1 to 6.
At the end of the 2016 Rio Olympic Games, Kazakhstan won 3 gold, 5 silver and 9 bronze, and now it has become 2 gold, 5 silver and 10 bronze, the gold medal was deprived of one, and the bronze medal was increased by 1.
That is to say, in the three Olympic Games before the Tokyo Olympics, Kazakhstan was deprived of a total of 7 gold medals, while the total number of gold medals they won at the end of the three Olympic Games was 13!
Of the 7 gold medals that Kazakhstan was stripped of, 6 came from weightlifting, all because of doping!
Among them, Lilarilin won the men's 94 kg championship at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games and the 2012 London Olympic Games, and both of his gold medals were confiscated because of doping.
Kazakhstan's three other cancelled weightlifting gold medals were won by women, including Zulfia in the 53kg class, Manesha in the 63kg class, and Portobedova in the 75kg class.
Coincidentally, the gold medals won by the three Kazakhstan women's weightlifting Olympic champions all came from the 2012 London Olympics.
The five Kazakh Olympic champions, deprived of results and gold medals, were invariably banned for a long time, and the glorious era of weightlifting in Kazakhstan ended.