Weightlifting dealt a new blow to the Colombian delegation at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, after Yenny Alvarez could not get a medal this Thursday.
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Yenny Álvarez, Colombia’s medal hopeful, finished last and without any points, after all three of her attempts, which were aimed at gold or silver, were declared null and void.
Yenny Alvarez, Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
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After a disappointing day for the Colombian, Chinese Luo Shifang won gold in the -59 kg weightlifting event at the 2024 Paris Games on Thursday, setting three Olympic records.
Why did they call off the uprising?
The start was very close, but the Colombian performed well and finished third with 105 kilos. She was surpassed by the Canadian Maude Charrion, with 106, and the Chinese, Shifang Lou, who lifted the barbell with 107 kilos.
Yenny Alvarez
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In her first lift in the clean and jerk, the Colombian asked for 130 kilos and it was null. Colombia appealed the first ruling. The judges noted that the Valle del Cauca native bent her elbow, but the judges upheld the decision.
The athlete herself said about the decision: “I didn’t really think about why, I was focused on my competition, but well, if the judges decided it, well.”
For his part, the president of the Colombian Weightlifting Federation, William Peñasaid: “For us the movement was valid, that is why we protested it. It does not appear that he flexed his elbow, but the judges confirmed that it was a null movement.”
During the broadcast of the RCN channel, Oscar Figueroa, Former Colombian weightlifter, analyzed: “I noticed she was a little anxious, but she is in very good shape. She flexes her elbow, it is in an instant that she flexes her right elbow.”
Álvarez was unable to lift the 132 kilos on both occasions and was left empty-handed.
The Valle del Cauca native had never lifted 132 kilos in the Olympic cycle. At the 2023 Central American and Caribbean Games she lifted 131, her maximum weight, but this time she couldn’t.
Her best total was 234 kilos at the 2022 World Championships in Bogotá, but here Luo won the gold with 241 kilos, Charrion won the silver with 236 and Kuo won the bronze with 235.
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