Weightlifting accident - Beijing 2008

[Thousand]

http://www.sportingnews.com/blog/th...0/no_to_the_nth_power,_weightlifting_division

Weightlifting is the most violent solo sport.

 

[daty]

geees if they showed it again (despite announcers saying not to ) I think i would have spit up

 

[Thousand]

Kinda interesting that the Chinese are censoring it with those Olympic card boards.

 

[JD75]

Thank God I gave up the sport long ago

you should change your handle to UsedToBeStrongerbeau

 

[Thousand]

Could this accident be prevented if the guy has stronger forearm muscle on his right arm?

 

[Tarkus]

A sport?

http://www.sportingnews.com/blog/th...0/no_to_the_nth_power,_weightlifting_division

Weightlifting is the most violent solo sport.

You do get some pretty nasty accidents in weight lifting.

Personally I think there should only be sports in the Olympics where only humans can do it. Ie: if someone blows an elbow weight lifting and the 'weight gorilla' runs over and lifts up the weight with one arm only to be effortlessly picked up and carried away by the 'gorilla lifting elephant' maybe we should realize that we just aren't that good at the whole lifting thing.

Next event running... the cheetahs are warming up.

 

[RTRD]

Oh...

Kinda interesting that the Chinese are censoring it with those Olympic card boards.

...much better to make a spectacle of the guy writhing in pain, right? That is what the audience wanted to see.

 

[tboy]

THis kind of reminds me of the one video of the guy who blew out his colon due to the internal pressure....now THAT was gross.....

 

[HAMSTER INSPECTOR]

Thank God I gave up the sport long ago

LINK: www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwV1eyaljKI
( look on the floor after she drops the weights )


Was this the reason why you gave up weight lifting, or maybe the outfit would not acommadate a atheletic cup after the sex change operation>

 

[SilverC]

Many years ago while playing baseball our first baseman dislocated his elbow. The shortstop made a throw to the first baseman's left he reached for it. Just as he caught the, arm extended and locked, he hit the runner in the chest.... result, one winded runner, one dislocated elbow... it wasn't pretty.

 

[futurelegend]

What about this guy who breaks his leg? Most of us have seen this already, I'm sure.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwK0NykA_kk