The USSR said that they had 400,000 elite (national-international level) weightlifters at one point & that’s why they’re so good. Just to make an Olympic team, they’d have to be the best in the world & nobody used anything. Does anyone beleive that? Leonid Taranenko said in his interview with Bud Charniga that world records would be significantly higher if the Soviets used as heavily as the Americans.
i have heard that they didnt use as much as Americans…