Weightlifting at the Summer Olympic Games 2020

[hckošice 14,794]

Women's -87kg
Final Results

 

  WANG Zhouyu   
270 (120 +150)

 

  Tamara SALAZAR ARCE    
263 (113 + 150)

 

  Crismery SANTANA PEGUERO        
256 (116 + 140)

 

Final Results Here

[vinipereira 3,239]

So have  and  replaced as the south american weightlifting powerhouses?

[Vektor 3,326]

That's an anticlimactic end of all the drama. 

[Mkbw50 438]

That 'unfair advantage' made so much difference maybe the self-proclaimed biology experts will shut up now but I doubt it

[Federer91 2,728]

Ahahahahah, what humiliation  We can move on from this total waste of time now.

[tirtha22 232]

Laurel Hubbard, transwoman from New Zealand goes for 125 kg lift in Women's weightlifting and fails.

[thiago_simoes 1,423]

1 minute ago, Vektor said:

That's an anticlimactic end of all the drama. 

I'm sure most people here will be overjoyed, but I'm actually heartbroken. I never wished her to win a medal, but I wanted her to have a good performance and keep her chin up. Of course she must have been through lots of verbal abuse to get to this point, and this makes one's mind crumble. Transgender people are attacked on a daily basis and their very existence is always threatened. Being a transgender athlete competing at the Olympics for the first time and receiving so much backlash of course must have had a big impact on her mental toughness. 

[NearPup 3,035]

Whatever you think about the rules, Hubbard did nothing wrong. She followed all the rules as they exist. If you disagree with those rules your ire should not be towards her.

[Mkbw50 438]

2 minutes ago, thiago_simoes said:

I'm sure most people here will be overjoyed, but I'm actually heartbroken. I never wished her to win a medal, but I wanted her to have a good performance and keep her chin up. Of course she must have been through lots of verbal abuse to get to this point, and this makes one's mind crumble. Transgender people are attacked on a daily basis and their very existence is always threatened. Being a transgender athlete competing at the Olympics for the first time and receiving so much backlash of course must have had a big impact on her mental toughness. 

I saw her as a medal threat to so on that level I'm happy.

 

On a deeper level, I wished her the best but tbh I didn't want her to win a medal either, because the usual suspects would have more fuel to add to the fire. I think the judging on her second attempt was a bit harsh, but I don't know weightlifting enough to say for sure

[hckošice 14,794]

Women's +87kg
Final Results

 

  LI Wenwen   
320 OR (140 OR +180 OR)

 

  Emily CAMPBELL     
283 (122 + 161)

 

  Sarah Elizabeth ROBLES         
282 (128 + 154)

 

Final Results Here