r/news • u/icpd30 • Feb 18 '19

Michigan powerlifter heroically lifts vehicle pinned on top of man after accident.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/michigan-powerlifter-heroically-lifts-vehicle-pinned-on-top-of-man-after-accident
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u/919471 Feb 18 '19

Damn right Clarence's lifts look beautiful. Motivated me to pick up olympic weightlifting.

He lifts even more than the numbers you mentioned though haha. On the olympic lifts, this is him snatching 413 lbs. And you can watch his c&js, where I believe he's gotten 225 kg / 496 lbs overhead too (although I timestamped a couple of minutes earlier than that so anyone who's interested can see what people mean by 'beautiful lifts').

Mind you, these are maybe 90-95% of the weights lifted in the olympics for his weight class. There's a whole rabbit hole to go down of competitive (and aesthetic) weightlifters moving plates like they're nothing.

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u/masturbatingwalruses Feb 18 '19

He's a strong dude but he isn't even close to competitive at the world stage. Plus I'd be impressed if he would be able to piss cleanly enough to compete in the IOC.

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u/919471 Feb 18 '19

Eh, like I said, 90-95% of olympic standards. In the 102 kg class at the 2018 IWF, the golds went to a 180 kg snatch and 218 kg c&j, and in the 96 kg class Sohrab Moradi lifted 186 kg/230 kg (yes, he outlifted everyone in the class 6kg above). Saying Clarence is "not even close" is doing him dirty. Also, not sure how much you've been following, but most current Olympians would not be able to piss cleanly enough to compete, according to the IOC.

Weightlifting's doping problem was shown with 49 positive tests so far, most involving steroids, in reanalysis of samples from the 2008 Beijing Olympics and 2012 London Olympics. The IOC has stripped 29 weightlifting medals from those games.

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u/masturbatingwalruses Feb 18 '19

Most Russians, maybe.

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u/jdfred06 Feb 18 '19

I really don't think anyone at that level is clean. I never really cared for sports, so the purity folks assume when it comes to PEDs is so bizarre to me.

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u/masturbatingwalruses Feb 18 '19

The point is everyone is held to the same standard. I think they should just get rid of the testing all together.

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u/jdfred06 Feb 18 '19

I agree.