Tang Xingqiang, Xie Zhenye, Su Bingtian and Wu Zhiqiang from right to left. (Photo/Xinhua)

With resounding applause and cheers echoing throughout the Hangzhou Olympic Sports Center Stadium, the Chinese Olympic Committee (COC) held a medal presentation ceremony on Wednesday evening for Chinese athletes who won bronze in the men's 4×100m relay at Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, and the medalist in the women's 20km race walks at the London 2012 Olympics, after the athletics competitions in the 19th Asian Games held in Hangzhou, East China's Zhejiang province.

In March of this year, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced that the gold medalist in the women's 20km race walk at the London Olympics had been disqualified also due to doping violations. The top eight places in the event have been adjusted accordingly. Team China's Qieyang Shijie, Liu Hong, and Lu Xiuzhi respectively received the gold, silver, and bronze medals as replacements for the women's 20-kilometer race walk at the London Olympics.

In February 2022, the Court of Arbitration for Sport officially recognized Chinese relay athletes Su Bingtian, Xie Zhenye, Wu Zhiqiang and Tang Xingqiang as the recipient of the bronze medal in the men's 4x100-meter relay at the Tokyo Olympics held in 2021. This decision came as a result of a retrospective penalty imposed on Team Great Britain after a hearing found that the team's first-leg runner, Chijindu Ujah, had violated anti-doping regulations.