Time for another Full Warm Up + Competition Session.
20 year old Simon Martirosyan (113kg here) snatching 191kg, clean and jerking 235kg, (both intl. competition PRs!) at Junior Worlds 2017! He then gave 246kg a shot, which would have been a new junior world record!
I couldn’t believe how fast he stood up with 246 or that he stood up with it at all and then came so close to jerking it.
As you can see in the video his last heavier warm up was 210kg, which he did 13 min before his clean and jerk opener of 225kg. After that he took 120 and 160kg a couple of times to stay warm.
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Simon is a bit like Shi Zhiyong. Young and so full of energy that he looks like caged lion. Very impressive to watch.
I am still concerned because of this rumour about a ban on several nations but hope for the best. The World Champs would be very disappointing without them.
Disappointing perhaps, but cleaner drug wise. Those countries that are disqualified have themselves to blame. We are too used to admiring the drug users too much. True, steroids do not make the athlete stronger but they help to cut recovery by more than half and help train longer and harder. There are other training methods that can achieve the same results but a much slower pace and are more involved time wise but steroids are much easier. To each his own but be prepared to pay a price later on based on your genetics and a legal price like a suspension and confiscation of the medals. If some is not done soon to the satisfaction of the IOC, weightlifting will be gone of the Olympics by 2024. The sport will have to drop the word Olympic out of its designation and hold only world championships. The athletes that train just because there is the possibility of an Olympic Gold aside of the World Championships may not take the sport anymore and go into other things. It may not happen but mass punishment for violators is what the IOC is looking for in order to look at the sport with more benevolent eyes. We do not want to be compared to professional road cycling as it relates to drugs.