Time to post your predictions! Only your top pick for each weight class.
Here are mine:
+105kg: Behdad Salimi, even though Algebov looked fantastic. Iranians will get him to peak form.
105kg: Khadzhimurat Akkaev, sorry Dmitry
94kg: Artem Ivanov, because there is no way somebody with hair like this can win the Olympics twice
85kg: Kianoush Rostami, (Clarence Kennedy as backup)
77kg: Lu Xiaojun, (is Lu Haojie going?), Oh yeah and Hysen Pulaku will medal!
69kg: Tang Deshang, because China, that’s why
62kg: Kim Un-Guk, hope he uses this opportunity to defect from North Korea
56kg: Wu Jingbiao, because I don’t know anything about this class
Let me know your predictions in the comments.
Update: Added some polls.
Good picks. But… Albegov for big upset win in +105s. And how can you bet against “My Ugly Boy” Yup, repeat, bad hair and all.
He looked good in training.
https://allthingsgym.com/2012/05/ilya-ilin-192-5kg-snatch/
But London’s pidgins will try to lay eggs in that nest. That will obviously be a disadvantage during the lifts…
Hold on, Clarence is going to the olympics?
No. That was my pathetic attempt to be funny.
Dang. Clarence for 2016!
Huge fan of Klokov, but I think Armnau, if his head has been been in the right place the past few months is unbeatable.
Forgot to add Aramnau to the poll. Fixed.
What about the other 4 men’s weight classes? I want to vote for Lu Xiaojun ):
Going to add them. But I am not sure whom to put on the list…
doubt hysen can medal, lu, tigran, lu haojie, sa ja, these guys will all total at least 360 plus.
Yeah he will need a very good day to hit 360kg.
But a couple of misses by the others and everything is possible.
I will say one thing that the olympics can be very predictable. I don’t think anyone thought steiner would win in 2008 yet he did just for one example.
You mean unpredictable, right?
Yeah, but throwing some names around is still fun. What are your picks?
last olympics at 105+ class there was no a dominat lifter, and yes it was a huge surprise when stteiner lifted 8 kilo above his PR although this year Salimi will have and easy gold in my opinion
I’m not so sure he has missed some easy lifts in contest -for him at least- and his technique is not the sharpest at shw but he makes up for it by being very strong. The russian has looked very consistent and just takes one bad miss from salimi to open the door.
105s Andrei Aramanua may repeat. 85s Moradi shouldbe on there.
Your are right. Forgot Moradi.
What’s wrong with Ilya’s hair? I like his hair! I like his everything :)))))) Going to be less dramatic without Artem but I’m deffo cheering for Ilya. P.S. I’m from Kazakhstan 😉
I was just kidding of course 🙂
Have fun watching today!