China's Olympic weightlifting team confirmed

(BEIJING, July 8) -- Ma Wenguang, president of the Chinese Weightlifting Association (CWA) and director of the Weightlifting, Wrestling and Judo Administrative Center under the General Administration of Sports of China (GASC), recently revealed that ahead of the July 23 deadline, all members of the Chinese Olympic weightlifting team have been nominated. The weightlifters’ names will not be announced until the entire Chinese delegation to the Games is confirmed.

Most fans already have a good idea of which weightlifters made the cut in every category but the Men’s 69kg. A tough decision had to be made to choose two out of three excellent athletes: former Olympic Games champion Shi Zhiyong, who lifted 350kg at the Doha Asian Games, Zhang Guozheng, who has lost some body weight, and young upstart Liao Hui, who has proven his strength by accomplishing a 355kg lift.