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China Report - Citizenship Dispute Follows Weightlifting Champ Home from Kazakhstan
(ATR) A weightlifter who won Olympic gold for Kazakhstan says she will return to China this month and expects to represent her motherland at future Games.
Zhao Changling, or Zulfiya Chinshanlo, claimed the 53kg title in London while setting a new world record in the clean and jerk by lifting 131kg.
Zhao, 19, who was born and raised in Yongzhou, as well as Maiya Maneza (Chinese name Yao Meili) were on loan from their Hunan provincial weightlifting team to Kazakhstan in 2008 with permission to compete in all international competitions.
Zhao returned to her hometown this month and applied for a 2nd-generation ID card in Hunan's capital city of Changsha after her contract in Kazakhstan expired last month.
"I am back now, and I cannot wait to represent China at the international level," she told Xiaoxiang Morning News.
"It's my dream to win an Olympic gold medal for China. I will be back to train with Zhou Jihong (the coach of Hunan’s weightlifting team) again in the near future," she added.
Kazakh Federation: Zhao, Yao Still Ours
Kazakhstan’s weightlifting federation, meanwhile, is in denial about the news of Zhao's return.
"Chinshanlo (Zhao) and Maneza (Yao) just came back to
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Bringing come into being home? Nope
Two Chinese weightlifters won golden for pristine countries; it's within representation rules
The world's weightlifting leader said inaccuracy has no problem mess about with young Island lifters cool their clan to vie for else countries - as unconventional as it's done contained by the rules.
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Ajan was commenting on Kazakhstan's two Athletics gold medalists, Maiya Maneza and Zulfiya Chinshanlo, who are reportedly originally pass up China.
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Three Kazakhstan weightlifters stripped of London 2012 golds
Three weightlifters from Kazakhstan have been stripped of Olympic gold medals won at London 2012 after new tests found them guilty of doping.
Zulfiya Chinshanlo, Maiya Maneza and Svetlana Podobedova were all caught when samples from 2012 and the 2008 Games in Beijing were retested.
Chinshanlo won at -53kg, Maneza at -63kg and Podobedova at -75kg and all tested positive for steroid stanozolol.
It has not been confirmed if their golds will now be re-assigned.
Eight athletes were sanctioned on Thursday, with Marina Shkermankova of Belarus losing her London 2012 bronze medal in the -69kg class.
All Kazakh and Belarusian weightlifters could now be banned for a year from all international weightlifting competitions.
Under International Weightlifting Federation rules, automatic bans come into effect if at least three of a country's athletes fail Olympic retests.
The International Olympic Committee has reported a total of 98 positive cases from recent retests of samples from the Beijing and London Games.
At least six of those cases came in one weightlifting event, the men's -94kg category in 2012.