1980 Olympic Weightlifting (VID)

Great video, thanks.

I LOVE the way the guy jumps over the chalk bowl towards the end.

That was beautiful.

nice. so much can be seen in their faces.

Yo guys.

So much can be seen in their hairs too.
:-))))

peace

me

[quote]deplana wrote:
Yo guys.

So much can be seen in their hairs too.
:-))))

peace

me[/quote]

You can pull off being that ugly when you are that big.

[quote]Hanley wrote:
Great video, thanks.

I LOVE the way the guy jumps over the chalk bowl towards the end.[/quote]

Yeah, I think that’s Y. Vardanian. I’ve read about his stats (non lifting), and this man could suceed in virtually any sport.

Just to show you how explosive he was, he had a vertical jump of 65 cm with 50% of his BW (meaning he (82.5kg BW) + 50% of that).

He also had a broad jump well over 3m (somewhere along the lines of 3,6m, not sure, as I don’t know where I have the book, in which those stats are).

His 100m dash was under 11 s.

… great athlete

[quote]Hrastnik wrote:
Hanley wrote:
Great video, thanks.

I LOVE the way the guy jumps over the chalk bowl towards the end.

Yeah, I think that’s Y. Vardanian. I’ve read about his stats (non lifting), and this man could suceed in virtually any sport.

Just to show you how explosive he was, he had a vertical jump of 65 cm with 50% of his BW (meaning he (82.5kg BW) + 50% of that).

He also had a broad jump well over 3m (somewhere along the lines of 3,6m, not sure, as I don’t know where I have the book, in which those stats are).

His 100m dash was under 11 s.

… great athlete[/quote]

Jesus… They are amazing numbers.

Ah the good ol’ days of cold-war communist weightlifting, when men were men and women kept thier mouths shut. When world-records were broken every contest and everybody hated each other. Gawd I feel old.

Very cool. Has anyone seen any other videos out there of Alexiev?

Does anybody know what the song in the video is?

Awesome! Thanks for the post.

i will never get tired of watching that

[quote]Kasomak wrote:
i will never get tired of watching that[/quote]

Me neither! I keep coming back to this.