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USA weightlifting star Mattie Rogers: “I want to put on my best show and I just haven’t done that yet” appeared on olympics.com by Sam Peene.
Meeting controversy on move up to 81kg
Rogers started her career in the 69kg class, winning the first of her four world silvers at that weight in 2017.
Ahead of the Tokyo Games, that class was omitted from the Olympic programme leaving the new boundaries as 64kg and 76kg. With subsequent silver medallist Kate Vibert (formerly Nye) having established herself as national number one at 76kg, and 64kg not being an option, Rogers moved up to 87kg.
Despite weighing eight kilograms less than some of her rivals, and suffering a panic attack, she acquitted herself well in the Japanese capital.
The weight recalibrations have been kinder to her this time round as, for Paris, there are now 71kg and 81kg weight limits with Vibert again operating in the lower of the two.
Rogers competed for the first time internationally in this Olympic cycle at 81kg in March’s Pan American Championships in Bariloche, Argentina.
Lying in third place after the snatch, she needed 144kg in the clean and jerk to take bronze behind Olympic champion Neisi Dajomes.
She thought she was successful as two lights out of the three flashed white, but joy quickly turned to despair as one turned red after the bar had hit the ground.
With no jury or video review, unlike at other Olympic qualification events including the World Championships, Rogers had no course of appeal.
Not only did it cost the two-time former Pan American champion a podium place, the 7kg difference between a good and failed lift also adversely affected her Olympic ranking.
Her annoyance was obvious with Rogers saying she fought hard for “as long as she needed to”.
“I didn’t even think for a second that they didn’t think I had control of it because I heard the down signal,” she added.
She later wrote an Instagram post about the incident – which received nearly 45,000 likes – and said, “To whoever’s in charge: let’s have a jury at Olympic qualification events from now on.”
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