They will say, "Man, look at her technique! Best I've ever seen!" while failing to note that she is stronger than most of our men. Note the presence of David Rigert at 2:02. And her technique is very good.
Do you think this will wake up the USA Mens Weightlifting Team? Tatiana only weighed 97kgs a mere 3 kilos over the men's 94kg class.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kUo-...e_gdata_player
They will say, "Man, look at her technique! Best I've ever seen!" while failing to note that she is stronger than most of our men. Note the presence of David Rigert at 2:02. And her technique is very good.
Our second ranked USA mens 94 kilo lifter just blasted all over facebook that he had a great workout in which he snatched 140 kilos and c&j 180 kilos. Considering the female Russian lifter Who weighed the same did 146 and 181 yesterday, I guess he is proud to be right on her heels. Sure does seem like something is wrong with weightlifting in this country.
Even the Europeans networks -- despite their willingness to actually cover the sport -- are fucked up.
I think Bill Star mentioned in one of his articels here. The why? don't worry in my country with other sports it's the same, overpayed athletes that doesn't need to win but if they rank is fair good the federation is happy and the athletes gets always there money good or bad. So why making yourself tired if you get good payement.
Here's a short (15-sec) whole-body shot of her doing 165kg. (I can't load an 18 minute video in less than a day where I'm living)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ovhj...eature=related
Her starting position doesn't seem to have a lot of theatrics involved, and the bar doesn't drop an inch in her jerk.
Well, to be fair, we still have some hope on this side of the pond.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6mRbQG-PL4
There's some strength in this one.