The Olympics (Weightlifting)

Dathai · 01-08-2012 7:41pm

Wtf, the 177 lift wasn't given!!?

Something quare going on.

Molly · 01-08-2012 7:44pm

Looks like the first chinese guy declined his 3rd lift, and the other chinese lifter and his coaches didn't realise. All i saw was the chinese coach saying 'two minutes, two minutes' but i thought the two minutes had already gone. Potential costly f*ck up there. Can someone with commentary confirm this

token · 01-08-2012 8:20pm

Man little Lu is such a badass doing that 190kg C&J injured. Looked like he was in agony there holding the bar until the down signal. It was like Stalingrad them sending him up the hallway to do the lift. Turn back and get shot.

token · 02-08-2012 9:23am

token wrote: »

Man little Lu is such a badass doing that 190kg C&J injured. Looked like he was in agony there holding the bar until the down signal. It was like Stalingrad them sending him up the hallway to do the lift. Turn back and get shot.

EDIT: Found a video
http://tinypic.com/player.php?v=23uen83&s=6

cosatron · 02-08-2012 9:42am

Lu Xiaojun is an absolute beast, his technique on the clean and jerk is just amazing.

kevpants · 02-08-2012 4:52pm

Chris Hoy is a beast. Destroyed the juiced up German.

Track cycling is my new sport I want to try. It's basically a strength sport. Presume there is no track in the godforesaken wasteland?

squod · 02-08-2012 5:53pm

kevpants wrote: »

Chris Hoy is a beast. Destroyed the juiced up German.

Track cycling is my new sport I want to try. It's basically a strength sport. Presume there is no track in the godforesaken wasteland?

There's one in Crumlin. You'll have to googlize it. ''Dublin velodrome''. I'm waiting for the one getting built in Dundalk-hai .

*may never happen*

Edwardius · 02-08-2012 6:37pm

squod wrote: »

There's one in Crumlin. You'll have to googlize it. ''Dublin velodrome''.

I'd forgotten about that. Do you know if it's possible to rent track bikes there?

Paudee · 02-08-2012 8:29pm

Dead Ed wrote: »

I'd forgotten about that. Do you know if it's possible to rent track bikes there?

You'll have to rent a pair of quads while you're at it

squod · 02-08-2012 8:55pm

Dead Ed wrote: »

I'd forgotten about that. Do you know if it's possible to rent track bikes there?

I dunno. Me and Crumlin don't get on.

I wonder if the motor forum would know of any velodromy type roads.

Hanley · 02-08-2012 11:08pm

kevpants wrote: »

Chris Hoy is a beast. Destroyed the juiced up German.

Track cycling is my new sport I want to try. It's basically a strength sport. Presume there is no track in the godforesaken wasteland?

100% agree on this.

Antisocialiser · 03-08-2012 9:25am

Chris Hoy 1 rep squat max - 227kg @ 92kg bw

cambridge · 03-08-2012 1:12pm

power sport not strength sport

Thud · 03-08-2012 4:52pm

Molly wrote: »

Hmm, just saw a power clean in the womens 63kg. Was a bit surprised.

Good finale in the womens 75kg
Russian girl Zabolotnaya was using a squat jerk

Edwardius · 03-08-2012 5:00pm

Evstyukhina bombed. Durnit

. Zabolotnaya was a reserve team member. She only got the spot because Slivenko got injured.Silver ain't too bad for a sub! 161 power jerk is nuts.

DylanJM · 03-08-2012 7:28pm

85's turning into a bit of a bomb fest, three gone already.

Edwardius · 03-08-2012 8:50pm

That was ****ing awesome. Pity about Lu though.

Edwardius · 03-08-2012 10:49pm

The two Russkies. Frogdog has tickets to the 105s on monday. I hate him.

Edwardius · 04-08-2012 12:07pm

And on the same note, it ain't looking good for Akkaev. link. The same site is reporting that Klokov pulled out with an "unspecified medical condition".

kevpants · 04-08-2012 2:31pm

I'm hearing Klokov and Akkaev are out. Well that's the Olympics ruined.

What next, no Santy?

Edwardius · 04-08-2012 2:50pm

Santy's pulled out of the supers too.

Hanley · 04-08-2012 9:15pm

cambridge wrote: »

power sport not strength sport

You'd swear strength wasn't an important component of potential power output or something.

DylanJM · 04-08-2012 9:27pm

Ilya Ilin.....just.....WOW!!!

That man is just nuts, doesn't mess around just goes out and clean and jerks 233kg like it's nothing. Definitely makes up for the disappointment of the 105's

The_Kew_Tour · 05-08-2012 1:03am

Never really been into Weightlifting as a Sport, but I really enjoyed the Mens 94KG event today. Was great entertainment. Really great stuff and an event I am hoping to get more into even after the Olympics.

Got me thinking though. Is it an event Ireland could do well in? Excuse my lack of knowledge, but I think it could well. Be sport we should look at.

Did not see any countries from Western Europe competing, but wondering is there any chance we could see somebody in Weightlifting in future Olympics?

Ivan.Drago · 05-08-2012 1:31am

The_Kew_Tour wrote: »

Did not see any countries from Western Europe competing, but wondering is there any chance we could see somebody in Weightlifting in future Olympics?

http://www.youtube.com/user/clarence0?feature=results_main

Scuba Ste · 05-08-2012 8:39pm

Got back from London last night. Was at the 77s on Wed and the 85s on Friday. Amazing experience especially the 77s despite the third attempt mix up. Seeing a new snatch and total record was unbelievable. Got home last night to watch the 94s and wow. Ilin is some lifter.

Also got a photo with Lu Xiaojun outside the arena just before the 85s. Sweet.

Scuba Ste · 05-08-2012 8:58pm

The_Kew_Tour wrote: »

Never really been into Weightlifting as a Sport, but I really enjoyed the Mens 94KG event today. Was great entertainment. Really great stuff and an event I am hoping to get more into even after the Olympics.

Got me thinking though. Is it an event Ireland could do well in? Excuse my lack of knowledge, but I think it could well. Be sport we should look at.

Did not see any countries from Western Europe competing, but wondering is there any chance we could see somebody in Weightlifting in future Olympics?

Curious. Why do you think Ireland could do well in it? The answer is no though.

Hanley · 05-08-2012 10:50pm

Scuba Ste wrote: »

Curious. Why do you think Ireland could do well in it? The answer is no though.

Yeah same. I'd change no to "hahahaha" or something tho

cambridge · 05-08-2012 11:47pm

Ireland will never win any medals in that cycling thing because we don't have the olympic level infrastructure regardless of talent. It would take 100 million to catch up on the countries that medal.

With 10 million you could putting olympic lifting platforms in every county and have a national coach and support staff that would give the lads currently representing ireland more support and more opportunities to their successors.

I don't know how much of the success in powerlifting is winning mickey mouse competitions but if we had 10% of the success in OL there would be medal opportunities.

Sure when clarence gets carded and a starts getting $ support he will progress even faster.

Hanley · 06-08-2012 12:40am

cambridge wrote: »

I don't know how much of the success in powerlifting is winning mickey mouse competitions but if we had 10% of the success in OL there would be medal opportunities.

No one in Ireland is really winning anything that is "truly" competitive internationally. I'm talking about IPF world standard here. So our international success in powerlifting isn't really indicative of some big talent pool of possible olympic lifting talent, as you've kind of alluded to.

Plus that talent would need to be identified in early teen years at the absolute latest to have any olympic potential.

The_Kew_Tour · 06-08-2012 11:22am

Scuba Ste wrote: »

Curious. Why do you think Ireland could do well in it? The answer is no though.

Well excuse me for my lack of Knowledge and all, but we are country that are built more on strength and all and with proper training and facilities then would that not help?

I know it would take long time of course. I know its not just as simple as I said, but at same time its not something we lack either.

COH · 06-08-2012 11:36am

The_Kew_Tour wrote: »

we are country that are built more on strength.

Are we

The_Kew_Tour · 06-08-2012 12:46pm

COH wrote: »

Are we

Well we are not fast or small little men like guys from South Korea , Mexico and Iran. All countries I have been to.

Dathai · 06-08-2012 1:03pm

The Iranians and South Koreans have done alright for themselves in weightlifting though.

DylanJM · 06-08-2012 1:10pm

The_Kew_Tour wrote: »

Well we are not fast or small little men like guys from South Korea , Mexico and Iran. All countries I have been to.

Being small (short) and fast are two advantages when it comes to weightlifting, Iran and South Korea have many great lifters.

Even if you have the facilities and the coaches you are still not guaranteed to produce world class lifters, I mean look at the US, one male lifter in London.

kevpants · 06-08-2012 5:43pm

COH wrote: »

Are we

In the first few Olympics we were a powerhouse in things like hammer throw. I was only looking at pictures in my Aunt's house yesterday of her husbands dad posing in a field, in a lifting singlet with a swimsuit clad lady held over his head in Louth. Would have been in the 1920's or 30's.

Before the GAA hoovered up every bit of sporting interest in the country we had a much broader interest in a wide array of sports. It was the GAA who painted everything bar bogball and stick fighting as "foreign" and interest was lost over the years.

We're a sporting country no doubt, we just put idiots in charge of every possible council or organisation and we make a balls of it.

The_Kew_Tour · 06-08-2012 6:05pm

kevpants wrote: »

In the first few Olympics we were a powerhouse in things like hammer throw. I was only looking at pictures in my Aunt's house yesterday of her husbands dad posing in a field, in a lifting singlet with a swimsuit clad lady held over his head in Louth. Would have been in the 1920's or 30's.

Before the GAA hoovered up every bit of sporting interest in the country we had a much broader interest in a wide array of sports. It was the GAA who painted everything bar bogball and stick fighting as "foreign" and interest was lost over the years.

We're a sporting country no doubt, we just put idiots in charge of every possible council or organisation and we make a balls of it.

I agree with your post.

All I was trying to say in my post at the time that if we were to put investment in place to support weightlifting for the future I be confident we would see rewards down the line.

I have friends from Kazakhstan and Poland and they been telling me that we would have the right type of build to succeed in this sport if we were to take it serous.

On side note its a sport in which I have truly enjoyed in Olympics. New fan here. Ilya Ilyin performance the other day was unreal.

First Explorer · 06-08-2012 7:02pm

Hey Guys haven't seen any weightlifting so far in the Olympics can anyone tell me which channel you are all watching it on? The mens group A final just started.

The_Kew_Tour · 06-08-2012 7:05pm

First Explorer wrote: »

Hey Guys haven't seen any weightlifting so far in the Olympics can anyone tell me which channel you are all watching it on? The mens group A final just started.

BBC Red Button for me

Nervous Wreck · 06-08-2012 7:10pm

Absolutely heartbroken for the Korean in the 105s just there.

First Explorer · 06-08-2012 7:19pm

The_Kew_Tour wrote: »

BBC Red Button for me

Well that it explains why I haven't seen any and probably won't, at least I won't have to watch people half my weight lift twice what I can

Molly · 06-08-2012 7:43pm

Dolega

kevpants · 06-08-2012 7:47pm

Molly wrote: »

Dolega

Halfwit

token · 06-08-2012 8:56pm

Klokov rumour mill proves to be true

http://www.allthingsgym.com/2012/08/klokov-tests-positive/

DylanJM · 06-08-2012 9:17pm

token wrote: »

Klokov rumour mill proves to be true

http://www.allthingsgym.com/2012/08/klokov-tests-positive/

Is it not a bit shítty of Randall Strossen to be posting hearsay like that on twitter. I'm not doubting it but surely it could open a big can of worms for Klokov if wada decide to follow the rumor up.

Paudee · 06-08-2012 9:19pm

DylanJM wrote: »

Is it not a bit shítty of Randall Strossen to be posting hearsay like that on twitter. I'm not doubting it but surely it could open a big can of worms for Klokov if wada decide to follow the rumor up.

Very shitty, he's only a prick.

Edwardius · 06-08-2012 9:47pm

Molly wrote: »

Dolega

He owes me money. That's how gambling works right? I sad.

Bad day for weightlifting if that stuff is true. Not gonna hold my breath.

Hanley · 06-08-2012 11:28pm

I really f*cking hate that "allthingsgym" website.

allimac · 07-08-2012 3:42pm

First Explorer wrote: »

Well that it explains why I haven't seen any and probably won't, at least I won't have to watch people half my weight lift twice what I can

Here's a link to the weightlifting http://www.eurovisionsports.tv/london2012/index.html?video_id=8320 also any other live olympic sport.

Paudee · 07-08-2012 3:43pm

The Olympics (Weightlifting)

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