Weightlifting remains an official event at the 2028 LA Olympics... IWF President: “I can’t feel safe”
Although we have overcome the risk of being eliminated as an official Olympic event... Challenges such as doping issues remain
On the day that weightlifting was confirmed to be adopted as an official event for the 2028 Los Angeles (LA) Olympics, International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) President Mohammed Hassan Zarroud (Iraq) said, “I feel a sense of relief.”
However, Chairman Jarud also expressed caution, saying, "It is a day to celebrate, but today cannot be seen as the day when reform was completed," and added, "For the future of weightlifting, we must continue reform." 온라인카지노
At the 141st General Assembly held in Mumbai, India on the 16th (local time), the International Olympic Committee (IOC) approved the adoption of weightlifting and modern pentathlon as official events, which were omitted from the 28 LA Olympic basic events.
Weightlifting, a 'traditional sport' that has been adopted as an official event at the Summer Olympics since the first competition in 1896, will maintain its status until 2028.
Chairman Jarud immediately issued a statement, saying, “I am happy to deliver good news to weightlifting officials around the world, especially athletes,” and added, “It is thanks to the efforts of everyone who loves weightlifting that weightlifting has maintained its status as an official Olympic sport.
“We are grateful to the IOC for recognizing our efforts for change,” he said.
Although it has overcome a major hurdle, weightlifting continues to receive warnings from the IOC that it will be excluded from the Olympic Games.
Urine samples from the 2008 Beijing and 2012 London Olympics In the reinvestigation, a large number of weightlifting medalists tested positive for banned substances.
In addition, as most of the suspicions that the IWF executive, including former president Tamas Ayan, aided and abetted doping test evasion and committed accounting fraud, were revealed to be true, the view on weightlifting became colder.
Although it was avoided as an official sport, the number of weightlifting Olympic weight classes was reduced from 15 at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games to 14 at the 2020 Tokyo Games held in 2021, and only 10 weight classes will be held at the 2024 Paris Olympics.
President Jarud, who was elected in June 2021 and is leading the IWF reform, followed the standards set by the IOC, such as delegating doping management of weightlifters to the International Testing Agency (ITA), an independent organization, and overcame the risk of being excluded from the Olympic Games.
Chairman Jarud said, “If we see remaining as an official event at the 2028 LA Olympics as the end point of our reforms, we will face a crisis again.
“You can escape,” he emphasized.
“The Olympics is a dream stage for all athletes,” said IWF athlete committee member Haidilyn Diaz, who won the Philippines’ first ever Olympic gold medal in weightlifting at the Tokyo Games. “