It was all worth it for this moment…
Nijat Rahimov won gold in the 77kg men’s weightlifting last night when he produced a heroic final lift to dethrone 2012 gold medalist Lyu Xiaojun.
Rahimov was down by 9kg going into his final lift yesterday, with Xiaojun already celebrating and convinced he’d won a second gold medal.
But the Kazakstan athlete threw caution to the wind and upped his weight by 12kg to 214kg in an attempt to clinch gold.
Here’s the result…
https://twitter.com/QuickTempa/status/763521942246744064
However, while the joyous scenes are absolutely brilliant to watch and it’s clear that all the athletes put in a lot of hard work, there’s been some suspicion of Rahimov’s achievement.
Rahimov returned from a doping ban last year and immediately after he broke the 15-year-old world record with his 214kg lift, questions were raised about possible doping.
On Tuesday, Taiwanese gold medal contender Lin Tzu-Chi was withdrawn from competition prior to her event for abnormalities in her drug test.
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