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Getbig Main Boards => Gossip & Opinions => Topic started by: SuperTed on August 18, 2016, 10:37:20 AM
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Finally managed to catch Tuesday's Olympic weightlifting action involving the +105kg mens class.
Some real quality in the Snatch with Lasha Talakhadze of Georgia breaking Behdad Salimi record with a 215kg lift, only for the Iranian to go 1kg better in his final lift and get his record back (also equalling Antonio Krastev's lift set in 1987 under the old weight classes).
Things got ugly in the C&J with the 2012 gold medalist Salimi failing on all three of his 245kg attempts and bombing out of the competition. He was deemed to not have locked his elbows when performing the Jerk on his first two attempts. His 2nd attempted was originally white lighted by the judges but overturned by the jury. One member of the jury was Iraqi and the Iranian's think he was the one who conspired against their man. :D
22 year old Talakhadze went on to C&J 258kg and take the gold medal. With a total of 473kg, he topped Rezazadeh's previous record (although is still 2kg short of Leonid Taranenko's all time record).
It's a shame though that Salimi bombed and that Aleksey Lovchev/Russia was banned.
A battle between Talakhadze, Salimi and Lovchev could have been one of the most epic displays of weightlifting of all time.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/37104476
http://www.allthingsgym.com/lasha-talakhadze-215kg-snatch-258kg-clean-jerk-2016-olympic-games/
At nearly 6'6ft and 350lbs, Talakhadze is one of the bigger guys. 8)
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Wow. Lincoln was shot?
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Wow. Lincoln was shot?
No he wasn't. At least I don't think he was. Is this true? Can someone verify it? Photos or it never happened.
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The best thing to come out of this besides the record is the Iranian meltdown. Literally millions of posts in the IWF Instagram-
http://www.instagram.com/iwfnet/ .
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The best thing to come out of this besides the record is the Iranian meltdown. Literally millions of posts in the IWF Instagram-
http://www.instagram.com/iwfnet/ .
Talakhadze breaking Rezazadeh's record must have made it even worse. He even trolls the Iranian fans a little. ;D
https://streamable.com/wl08
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so over 105 kg is super-heavy in oly lifting?
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so over 105 kg is super-heavy in oly lifting?
Yes, till they rejigger it again, up until 92, it was over 110, then 96 -2000 it was over 108, now it's over 105. And every few years they think of changing it again to the dismay of older lifters.
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Yes, till they rejigger it again, up until 92, it was over 110, then 96 -2000 it was over 108, now it's over 105. And every few years they think of changing it again to the dismay of older lifters.
interesting that if keeps going down, coz in powerlifting is goes up as super heavy used to be over 110 kg then it went to over 125 kg and now it's over 140 kg
so dildo heath, along with all the other Mr. O competitors would be competing as super heavies in oly lifting