How does someone like Richard McLaren, the law professor and investigator behind “The McLaren Report”—about widespread state-sponsored doping in Russia—follow up on that success? In this case, it’s by writing a report that is even more unbelievable. But where McLaren’s Russian investigation featured a cast of coolly efficient—if unscrupulous—characters who could have been pulled directly […]
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McLaren Report on International Weightlifting Federation
Update: We recorded a podcast episode about the findings of the report. Listen below. The McLaren Weightlifting Investigation press conference was this morning and it was just about as damning and explosive as possible. The investigators found evidence of a “dysfunctional organization” that was intentionally designed for former IWF President Tamas Ajan to maintain control. […]
Jerk Essentials with Kuo-Hsing Chun!
View this post on Instagram A post shared by All Things Gym (@atginsta) on May 12, 2020 at 12:30pm PDT For many of us in the sport of weightlifting, the jerk is like death and taxes: necessary, unavoidable, and best put off for as long as possible. But it doesn’t have to be this way! […]
The Lift That Launched a Thousand Ships: Rebeka Koha’s Jerk
As part of an ongoing effort to provide high quality Olympic weightlifting content, we here at ATG headquarters are going to spend some time analyzing one of the best jerks around: that of Rebeka Koha. Not only that, to learn more about her approach we went straight to the source, talking with Koha herself and her coach Eduards […]
The ATG Guide to Olympic Qualification
So you want to go to the Olympics? Demystifying the IWF qualification system for Tokyo 2020 TL;DR: to go to the Olympics, be as high on the ranking list as possible. The ranking list doesn’t care about weight class. Spots are given based off this list. Update 05.05.2021: With less than 80 days the IWF […]
The Chronicles of Arnaia: On Location in Greece with Pyrros Dimas
Update: Here is Part One – The Lion (Cub) of Himara. Update: Here the video that was made for the US Olympic Trials. Here is a special report from none other than Dr. David Boffa of The Human Circus and The Two Doctors Podcast. He was on a special mission in Greece to interview one […]