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Chinese Weightlifting Team for London

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Thanks to reader Tom who found the the list of the Chinese weightlifting team for London. Update: Found a fairly recent video from the Chinese training hall (with translation on the right). Men: 56kg: Wu Jingbiao 62kg: Zhang Jie 69kg: Lin Qingfeng 77kg: Lu Xiaojun, Lu Haojie 85kg: Lu Yong (So no Tang Deshang in the 69kg, no Su Dajin […]

Exercise Ball Filled with Water

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When it comes to lifting odd objects a stability ball filled with water reigns supreme. Ross Enamait has a video of it. He says that he filled that things with over 100 pounds of water. First I was skeptical about the durability, but as as you can see Ross man handles that thing pretty good. Great […]

Russian’s Way to the Olympics

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Thanks to Anna for sending in this video of a Russian tv show called “The Way to the Olympics”. It has some footage from the men’s training camp in Taganrog (8:25) as well as the women’s training camp in Rouza (14:25). As always it would be great if anyone of you could sum up the […]

Julia Rohde Profile

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What’s a good opportunity to post something about Julia Rohde? That’s right any reason is a good one. In the short video below she talks about the usual stereotypes that come with being a weightlifter. She says most people think that female weightlifter are big, heavy and (giggles) ugly. But adds that in the lighter weight classes […]

Aurimas Didzbalis Tests Positive – Out of Olympics

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94kg Lithuanian powerhouse Aurimas Didzbalis lost his European silver medal. He failed a doping test, thus costing his country its only Olympic spot. In the statement, the Lithuanian weightlifting federation said that its international counterpart had on July 6 reported that a urine sample taken from the 21-year-old was found to contain a substance that exceeded […]

The Olympics According to You

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The results from last Sunday’s super scientificly accurate polls are in. +105kg So most of you share my opinion that Salimi will have fully recovered (or at least enough) in time to take the +105kg. Votes Percentage Behdad Salimi 123 68.72% Ruslan Albegov 52 29.05% Matthias Steiner* 2 1.11% George Kobaladze* 1 0.58% Somebody entered “myself” 1 0.58% […]

Voodoo Bands Arrived

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Look what came in the mail today. I bit the bullet and bought a pair of Voodoo Floss Compression Bands. My way of saying thank you to Kelly Starrett and supporting the Mobility Wod project. If someone is looking for me today, I’ll be in the pain cave. See the bands in action in the Compression Band Category.