The Olympics -- weightlifting

Aug 20, 2008 23:06

The last weightlifting event is for lifters weighing in at 105+ kg. These are the super-heavyweights, and some of them look as though they should just be slobbish couch potatoes, at home every night drinking beer and stuffing their faces -- but they can lift over 500 pounds! The human body is so weird. One Russian in the final looked like he was ( Read more... )

weightlifting, matthias steiner, olympics

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tijnat August 22 2008, 07:01:39 UTC
Thanks for sharing that story, cab. Those are the stories I love as well and I had missed that one. Now I'm teary, too. :) How sad about his wife.

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