New Delhi: Fighting to survive as an Olympic sport, the weightlifting body that regulates the body will likely introduce six new divisions among a total of 10 for 2024 Paris Games, only four of the Tokyo edition, a movement that will see the sensation of Indian teenagers in the Lalrinnunga Category This is sliding from the list.
The proposal needs to be approved by the International Board of General Federen Board before being sent to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) for its nod.
The proposed weight category for Paris 2024 includes five each for men and women.
They are 61kg, 73kg, 89kg, 102kg and + 102kg for men, and 49kg, 59kg, 71kg, 81kg and + 81kg for women.
The maintained from Tokyo is 49kg and 59kg for women and 61kg and 73kg for men.
Changes, which came a year after the IOC allocated a 120 athlete quota in all divisions for the Paris game, highlighting the existence of reduced weightlifting in Extravaganza Sporting.
While the Rio 2016 game has seen the participation of 260 athletes in 15 heavy categories, the quota was cut into 196 in 14 classes at the Tokyo Olympics earlier this year.
“This (10 heavy categories) is just a proposal, first will go to the IOC General Agency for approval followed by the IOC.
Recently whether this category will be confirmed,” President Federger Heavy Lifting India (IWLF) Sahdev Yadav told PTI .
The final decision is expected at the end of February.
“The next meeting date (IWF General Council) has not been decided.
The possibility is that in January or February it will occur,” Yadav said.
If the proposal is approved, Jeremy, which is currently competing in the 67kg men’s category must be bulk to 73kg or down to 61kg.
Tokyo Olympic Silver Medal Mirabai Chanu, other Indian lifts in the commotion for the Paris game, still not affected because the heavyweight was proposed to be maintained.
Asked how new categories will have an impact on the Indian camp that Jadav said, “It won’t affect us, we will take Jeremy to the top 73kg category.
I don’t think it (describes the weight category in the Olympics) will make a difference to weightlifting in India.” Repeating Yadav’s comments, Vijay Sharma National Coach said that next year’s Asian Games will be the last event where Jeremy participates in the 67kg category before moving to a new heavyweight.
“This is a good thing for us, we will start preparing the Olympics after the Asian match.
Until the Asian game Jeremy will take part in 67kg until.
After that he will move to the 73kg category.” He must work difficult to accumulate but we will manage, “Sharma said from Patiala.
This will not be the first time Jeremy must accumulate.
The 19-year-old lift from Mizoram has won the 2018 Youth Olympic gold medal in Buenos Aires in Buenos Aires in the 62kg category.
He then moved to 67kg to comply with the new Olympic category which was a new game thanks to his gold medal completed at the Commonwealth Championship in Tashkent earlier this month.
Heavy Win is still at risk of removing from the 2028 La Games program because of the problem of governance and history of doping problems.