That’s why you will rarely see anyone in a “show” (the Olympics are a show) dominate and make those status quo coaches look bad.
Merica had some back in the day when lifting was frowned upon, yet some trained in their basements.
The coaches saw how great lifting is, however you can only do it “their way”, keep the athletes performance all closely the same, keeps the masses engaged. Don’t expose someone whose dominate who isn’t doing the status quo……
Are you suggesting there is a conspiracy among the IOC and the broader community of lifters who do the snatch and clean & jerk to prevent the actual best lifters from performing those two lifts in competition?
I’m not into conspiracy stuff.
These are jobs though, these jobs aren’t about what you know, it’s who you know.
……like many jobs.
I do agree.
This has very little to do with anything in this thread. Most everyone here does not deal with dominate coaches. I never had one. I never considered getting any coach.
I really don’t get the point of your post in context with this thread.
America, the land of freedom, offers choice. Everyone I knew chose the type of weight lifting they wanted. Because Olympic weightlifting requires much more technique than powerlifting and bodybuilding the choice is very simple for everyone that I knew.
I just don’t see this to have any widespread issue here.
Remember just a few years ago when they wouldn’t let the fastest woman in the world go to the Olympics?
Are you referring to Sha’Carri Richardson?
She was charged with using “weed.”
This is a bitterness that betrays your personal experience. I honestly feel bad for you and the intense loneliness you suffer from.
Only she isn’t the fastest woman in the world. She won silver in 2024. She also admitted to using marijuana. Remember, the Olympics are a global event and marijuana use is a crime in some other nations.
Including her country - USA and her state - TX.
Silver medal?
She shoulda been in Jail!
Ok @zecarlo
If you were in the big ocean with the rest of the sharks, you wouldn’t even such as flinch to check this forum, let alone post all day long.
None of your superior knowledge got your foot in any doors and if it did, it must not of lasted.
But in 2023 she was. She won the Gold at the World Championships in the 100 meters in a time of 10.65 seconds
Broken link
You won’t trigger me, troll. You come here seeking the attention and validation you aren’t getting in your real life, not me. You seriously think an anonymous person on the internet who is either a troll or imbecile can hurt my feelings?
Sherika Jackson ran the same time in 2023.
But Richardson defeated Jackson at the 2023 World Championships in the 100 meters.
It doesn’t invalidate her time.
Fair enough. But the winner of the World Championship in the 100 meters is generally recognized as the fastest in the world that year. And Richardson bested Jackson head-to-head.
One person’s results neither validate nor invalidate any training method or attribute. We all know people who train perfectly and barely gain, and some that gain like crazy no matter how they train.
The whole point of this was the false ideas that…
that’s where trying to understand physiology through ‘logic’ just doesn’t work. Especially when a person doesn’t even WANT to learn and understand ‘how’ all the mechanisms function.
Sarcomere length with reference to maximum crossbridging
Basic 7th grade math/physics concerning simple leverage factors
MCT and SCT… two examples of those wrong conclusions creating bogus training systems that never did and never will produce a bodybuilder if used as the sole stimulus for hypertrophy.