In terms of the sporting competitors, it felt like the end of an era. There is a long list of stars who either have discussed retirement

Juniansyah went up to 199kg, setting an Olympic record. Zhiyong would have a second fail and when he failed again on his third attempt

1300-1545: Volleyball; Women's Event 🥇Brazil 🇧🇷 🥈China 🇨🇳 🥉Poland 🇵🇱

2030-2300: Weightlifting; Men's +102kg 🥇Lasha Talakhadze 🇬🇪 🥈Varazdat Lalayan 🇦🇲 🥉Gor Minasyan 🇧🇭

1900-2200: Athletics; Men's 400m Hurdles 🥇Rai Benjamin 🇺🇸 🥈Karsten Warholm 🇳🇴 🥉Alison dos Santos 🇧🇷

1900-2200: Athletics; Men's 200m 🥇Noah Lyles 🇺🇸 🥈Letsile Tebogo 🇧🇼 🥉Kenneth Bednarek 🇺🇸

1815-2200: Wrestling; Women's Freestyle -50kg 🥇Yui Susaki 🇯🇵 🥈Ziqi Feng 🇨🇳 🥉Dolgorjavyn Otgonjargal 🇲🇳 🥉Oksana Livach 🇺🇦

Talakhadze will be one of the stronger favourites in the weightlifting events, he barely loses.

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Lasha Talakhadze beat the old World Record with a lift of 215kg, but it was outdone by Behdad Salimi beating his own World Record

Diaz and Qiuyun improved to 124kg and 123kg respectively. Entering the final round they both put 3kg on the bar