Weightlifting at the Summer Olympic Games 2016

[thiago_simoes 1,423]

What's the story behind Moradi? I read he was banned for doping few years ago. 

[heywoodu 15,141]

It's time for the true godesses of the sport 

[Mkbw50 438]

What happened to Zaychikov's third lift that made it 420

What was wrong with it?

[Javohir 0]

 R.Nurudinov #UZB  #gold  #record

[heywoodu 15,141]

2 minutes ago, Javohir said:

 R.Nurudinov #UZB  #gold  #record

Nicely done 

[thiago_simoes 1,423]

A new Olympic record! Amazing! 

Also, finally a medal for Armenia!  

[MHSN 3,619]

Well, our coach made a big jump from 220 to 231 to win a bronze here, considering there is a Kazakh weightlifter on the podium , finishing 4th wasn't a bad result, who knows maybe in 4 years after the re-testing he could win a medal !

[Bearas 521]

14 minutes ago, MHSN said:

Well, our coach made a big jump from 220 to 231 to win a bronze here, considering there is a Kazakh weightlifter on the podium , finishing 4th wasn't a bad result, who knows maybe in 4 years after the re-testing he could win a medal !

What was wrong with Iranian guy today? He completely ignored call for 2nd attempt and did not event went to stage and on his 3rd attempt it did not even looked that he even tried to lift it..

[MHSN 3,619]

2 minutes ago, Bearas said:

What was wrong with Iranian guy today? He completely ignored call for 2nd attempt and did not event went to stage and on his 3rd attempt it did not even looked that he even tried to lift it..

 

That was a mistake by our genius coach, they knew even lifting 230kg won't put him in medal position, so they decided to not waste his energy on it, instead he tried his very last chance for 231. lifting 230 could put him on 4th position though.

 

you can change your attempts only twice and they already did that for his 2nd attempts, first to 225 and then to 230. so it was impossible to change that to 231.

Edited August 16, 2016 by MHSN

[Bearas 521]

1 minute ago, MHSN said:

 

That was a mistake by our genius coach, they knew even lifting 230kg won't put him in medal position, so they decided to not waste his energy on it, instead he tried his very last chance for 231.

 

you can change your attempts only twice and they already did that for his 2nd attempts, first to 225 and then to 230. so it was impossible to change that to 231.

Ah I see. So unfortunate that the 231 lift did not worked out