2017 world championships, Anaheim, CaliforniaĪnd, of course, the 2019 youth worlds, in Vegas. State Department - has over the past several years put on the following high-level events, all of which have in no small measure reestablished the American federation as a player in the international weightlifting scene: To that end, USA Weightlifting - working in conjunction with the USOC and the U.S. His entire message, typically hashtagged, is - it can be done.
Charged with changing the culture and direction of the sport - proving it is possible, particularly in this country, to win Olympic medals without performance-enhancing drugs - he has emerged as a rarity in the Olympic space, a thought leader. “Do we regret hosting world events? Absolutely not,” said Phil Andrews, USA Weightlifting’s chief executive officer, adding, “Do we intend to host again at some stage? Of course.”Īndrews is the exceptional national governing board executive who gets it, and totally. That’s why USA Weightlifting has, in effect, put the bar down. Practically speaking, perception is reality. Or at least, the perception - particularly in many quarters overseas, right or wrong, fair or not - is that it’s too hard. It’s just too hard to get people in to this country. No more big-time weightlifting events in the United States. In the aftermath of last week’s World Youth Weightlifting Championships in Las Vegas, shadowed by visa issues that complicated entry into the United States, USA Weightlifting has announced it is - at least for the near future - out of the bid game for high-level championships. And here it has a huge mountain to climb, complicated by factors both of its own doing and by those beyond its control - in particular to policy and perceptions attributable to the 45th president of the United States. Now comes a reminder that a significant part of the USOC’s mandate is outward-facing, too. The focus has seemed to be primarily if not entirely on gymnastics and on other domestic matters.
Virtually every single person in the Colorado Springs leadership team is new. The United States Olympic Committee has been all but consumed for months by the fallout from Larry Nassar’s crimes.
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