Heightened feats of primal strength performed by athletes who put the super in super heavyweight? Sign us up.
Lasha Talakhadze is the definition of a super heavyweight. The Georgian’s exact mass is unclear, with various biographies listing it as anything from 168kg up to 183kg. Suffice to say, anything in that range is safe in terms of eligibility to compete in the +102kg category. And, frankly, the particulars do not really matter when you are lifting the equivalent of a baby grand piano over your head.
It is a good thing moving quickly is not the aim of the exercise. Talakhadze holds the all-time world records – regardless of weight category – in the snatch , clean and jerk and total . Since returning from his two-year doping ban in 2015 he has won every world title on offer and Olympic gold at both Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020. Spoiler alert: he has just won gold again at Paris 2024.
On Saturday they included fans wearing fake muscle sleeves . There were regulars in civvies, and plenty of passionate flag flyers. And the types of flags told a story in themselves. Egypt, Estonia, Bahrain, Uzbekistan, Ecuador. These are not nations with the financial means to dominate in sports requiring big bucks such as cycling.Like running, weightlifting is within the reach of developing countries.
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