Weightlifting IWF World Championships 2018

[thepharoah 2,405]

Another win for China here 

[Function CR Lee 468]

The 7th gold medal for China.

[heywoodu 15,145]

Situation:

 

 

Valdes Paris going for 140kg in her last attempt. Commentator: "To move her up to a guaranteed total bronze medal."

 

 

 

And they don't even correct their mistake. In fact, after she made the lift and went to 250kg (2nd place, with two athletes still having to start their CJ): "You know what? She's guaranteed to end up on the podium."

 

And no, they were not talking about a CJ medal, they had already said she guaranteed herself of at least CJ bronze earlier.

Edited November 9, 2018 by heywoodu

[heywoodu 15,145]

First time I ever saw this Ao Hui, but she looks like a nice winner

 

Almost kinda like the Fu Yuanhui of weightlifting, with her cheering and laughter and overall happiness  

[heywoodu 15,145]

Kashirina starts almost at the level she started with at the 2014 world champs, where everyone went full retard all week long and she destroyed the world records  

 

[heywoodu 15,145]

As always the women's super heavy weights look a bit....meh. I mean, here are these absolute beasts of well over 100kg and probably well over 125kg as well, yet they are barely lifting a bar with 4 weights on it, in some cases not even coming close to their own bodyweight...the body size/weight size ratio looks a bit sad  

[thepharoah 2,405]

that's going to be real fun , Suping was able to lift 145 IMO 

[heywoodu 15,145]

1 minute ago, thepharoah said:

that's going to be real fun , Suping was able to lift 145 IMO 

Yep, I was fearing Kashirina would be too much ahead after snatch and the competition would be more or less dead, but this is good  

[Quasit 865]

33 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

As always the women's super heavy weights look a bit....meh. I mean, here are these absolute beasts of well over 100kg and probably well over 125kg as well, yet they are barely lifting a bar with 4 weights on it, in some cases not even coming close to their own bodyweight...the body size/weight size ratio looks a bit sad  

It's also a bit boring because we only get to see powerhouses competing. Samoa or Nigeria should have somebody here, for example.

[heywoodu 15,145]

8 minutes ago, Quasit said:

It's also a bit boring because we only get to see powerhouses competing. Samoa or Nigeria should have somebody here, for example.

Samoa did, and so did Tonga