Well, what a let down by Eurosport …
Not showing the Snatch of the +105 was a bummer. According to their schedule they will show a replay on Monday 15th (at 12:30). So let’s hope they at least recorded the entire session.
Update: Eurosport just showed a recording of the C&J session… so no +105kg Snaches!
Anyway, here are the Clean & Jerks by Ruslan Albegov and Artem Udachyn.
Albegov went 230kg, 236kg, 247kg. Udachyn 231kg, 242kg, x247kg
I could be mistaken here so please ignore if wrong but did Albegov go 242 on his final lift instead of 247?
Nope, 247 it was.
The commentators mistook it for 242 at first though, then corrected themselves when the scoreboard showed!
REALLY poor tactics by Ukraine, they should have just continued to match Albegov all the way up. yes taking 242 put pressure on the Russians, but if udachyn had just done 231 then matched albegov on 236 then it would be likely that the Russians had gone for something like 240ish which albegov would have made and Udachyn would have only had to match that to win instead of 247.
i know it doesn’t matter, but udachyn has the most massive gut i have ever seen
Andrei Chemerkin disagrees with you.
Serbathis in 2008 was right up there to. Made his legs look skinny