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Shi Zhiyong with new WRs for snatch and total, what a beast

I saw that. How did everyone from the Trump administration to the media identify the wrong guy for months at a time? That is mind blowing.

I did basic stretching and some minor dumbbell and cable work during de-load week. I also did a snatch and clean &jerk warm-up on Friday. ...

Monday Power snatch + 2 low hang snatch 85-1,1,1 Snatch pull with pause in 3 positions 120-3,3,3 Strict Press 65-10

HUGGGEE BUMP Turns out the trump squad is so stupid they had the wrong Klokov... finally makes sense now, seems that the Klokov that we know is...

Week of 4-15-19 No rowing this week letting the ITB syndrome in my left knee heal up. Manage two mediocre days of lifting... Tuesday DL 135...

Thurs - bouldering for 1.25 hrs Sat Power Snatch + low hang snatch 90-1 100-1, just power power clean + jerk 120-1

The most memorable thing about that case was the Egyptian National Team Coach blaming the positive tests on contaminated icecream.

While your interpretation can be read as correct, there's still no concrete evidence this in fact how the IWF handles these cases. Counter point:...

Li Fabin's 175 clean was a WR attempt. :P

Li Fabin gets gold with 141/171. Irawan was disappointing with 133/166 (18kg lower total than worlds last year). No WR attempts.

Moradi just posted a 160kg snatch video on instagram as part of his rehab from injury, so looks like his recovery is going well

Paid in cash if I remember correctly. No joke

Been pushing hard on the squats - the 10s were brutal, the 8s were grinders. 6s were tough... jumped in ahead of schedule for a 10# PR vs a year...

Start list is in: https://www.allthingsgym.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/2019-Asians-Start-List-ATG.pdf Bad news: no Rostami (or Moradi)... No...

They used to have fines of $50k/lifter. Remember 2013 when each country had over a dozen lifters pop? Basically fines dont mean shit to some of...

I seem to remember a rumour that what actually happened was Rezazadeh failed a test, but the coach made a deal where he sacrificed the rest of the...

14.3.2 referred to here is the requirement for reporting the outcome of anti-doping cases: So, the athletes involved may well have been...

How else can you force countries to take their anti-doping responsibilities seriously? I doubt fines would work. If large numbers of athletes...

If you happen to be on the national team in many of these countries, yet don’t fail your test, you are lucky then. For example, back in 2006 the...

If you can prove it then punish the national body responsible, but don't punish the clean athletes that just happen to be born in the same country as...

Because it is often not just an individual in these countries. Russia and its former soviet blocs, Bulgaria, Turkey, Iran, and many other countries...

Thanks for clarifying. Sucks for Iran but I think only Moradi and Alihosseini would be guaranteed medals in Tokyo anyway. Not a fan of these...

We've had this topic before, minors are excluded from disclosures but not the final sanctions. There are several lifters who were underage at the...

Ah yes, a couple of re-analysis positives takes them to 20. Thanks.

The other five were minors, so are exempt from disclosure of the outcomes of their cases. It would be good to find out what the final decision in...

Armenia will be down to 1+1 as well.

Good catch – thanks. Will correct.

Maybe not worded as well as it could be – I was pointing out that Qin Fulin's best clean and jerk of 169 is better than Li Fabin's best of 168 even...

The most that any nation can send is four men and four women. Several nations are reduced to fewer places than that because of anti-doping...