Weightlifting has worked hard to clean up its image after facing expulsion from the Olympics following a string of doping offences
Both the snatch, and clean-and-jerk Olympic records fell in an astonishingly composed display in which she completed every lift attempted.Every micro success in the macro arm wrestle with China’s neighbour over its contested sovereignty is diplomatic gold.
The bar is carried to the mat like some sacred implement and carefully set down. Next, a pair of assistants load it from each end and secure the plates. So entrenched had it become in Bulgaria and Russia both federations were banned from the Rio games in 2016 with wider reprisals feared after Tokyo. So much of this sport is psychological, the participants parading behind the bar as if preparing to enter a cage housing a lion.At some point you have to cast aside doubt and cross that threshold. The women in this category weigh 9st 4lbs. They were all lifting more than twice their body weight in the lift-and-snatch.
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