After a long wait, Chinese coach Chen Wenbin finally made public the list of athletes who will represent China at the Beijing Olympics.China expects gold in every category in which it has entered a competitor!
Women
48kg: Yang Liang
58kg: Chen Yanqing
69kg: Liu Chinghong
75kg: Cao Lei
Men
56kg: Long QingQuan
62kg:Zhang Xiang Xiang
69kg: Liao Hui, Shi Zhiyong
77kg: Li Hongli
85kg: Lu Yong
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and … are you going to share that list with the us or you just like being a tease
Good grief. here’s a link THREE WHITE LIGHTS: CHINA'S WEIGHTLIFTING TEAM ANNOUNCED
Women’s Team:
48kg - Yang Lian
58 - Chen Yanqing
69kg - Liu Chunhong
75kg - Cao Lei
Men’s Team
56kg - Long QingQuan
62kg - Zhang Xiang Xiang
69kg - Liao Hui
69kg - Shi Zhiyong
77kg - Li HongLi
85kg - Lu Yong
[quote]psychoshonen wrote:
www.threewhitelights.com[/quote]
I have a website?
That’s an insanely good lineup.
Why do they do 2 people in one class? At best, they get a gold and silver. Is there no one heavier that 85kg they could send that would be in medal contention?
What happened to 2004 winner Zhang Guozheng?
[quote]johnnytang24 wrote:
Why do they do 2 people in one class? At best, they get a gold and silver. Is there no one heavier that 85kg they could send that would be in medal contention?[/quote]
Nah, nobody anywhere near that good. Belarus, Armenia, Russia, Poland, Bulgaria, Greece, etc dominate the higher weight classes. Lu Yong is something of an anomaly as a Chinese 85. At the 2007 Worlds China had 1 at 77kg and 1 at 85kg and no one at all in the top 3 weight classes.
[quote]shizen wrote:
What happened to 2004 winner Zhang Guozheng? [/quote]
He bombed out of their national competition. Also, Liao Hui put up 8kg more than Zhang did at the 2007 World Championships.
[quote]johnnytang24 wrote:
Why do they do 2 people in one class? At best, they get a gold and silver. Is there no one heavier that 85kg they could send that would be in medal contention?[/quote]
Because there are three “events” (snatch, jerk, total) per weightclass and they might figure that Shi Zhiyong has a better chance at medaling in the snatch than any of their other lifters have at medaling in any events.
[quote]shizen wrote:
What happened to 2004 winner Zhang Guozheng? [/quote]
Retired to have kids I think. Was supposed to have retired after Athens but came back briefly in 2006, did the 2007 Worlds.
[quote]ChaseT wrote:
shizen wrote:
What happened to 2004 winner Zhang Guozheng?
He bombed out of their national competition. Also, Liao Hui put up 8kg more than Zhang did at the 2007 World Championships.
johnnytang24 wrote:
Why do they do 2 people in one class? At best, they get a gold and silver. Is there no one heavier that 85kg they could send that would be in medal contention?
Because there are three “events” (snatch, jerk, total) per weightclass and they might figure that Shi Zhiyong has a better chance at medaling in the snatch than any of their other lifters have at medaling in any events.[/quote]
In the Olympics your position is based entirely on total. If you bomb in the snatch you don’t even get to the C&J. There are no separate medals for best snatch and best C&J like there are at the Worlds.
[quote]ChaseT wrote:
Because there are three “events” (snatch, jerk, total) per weightclass and they might figure that Shi Zhiyong has a better chance at medaling in the snatch than any of their other lifters have at medaling in any events.[/quote]
At the Olympics, medals are only given out for the total.
[quote]ninearms wrote:
Retired to have kids I think. Was supposed to have retired after Athens but came back briefly in 2006, did the 2007 Worlds.
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He is not retired yet, though that announcement may come any day now that he failed to make the team. He competed in China’s Trials in April. As ChaseT mentioned, after injuring his elbow during the snatch, Zhang bombed in the clean and jerk.