All this assume China is innocent of drug use is just silly. Every top weightlifting country uses drugs, and yes the chinese get caught just do some research. They have even raided developmental facilities for young weightlifters in China and found steroids.
Long QingQuan won the Olympics this summer at the age of 17. He has clean and jerked over triple bodyweight in training and cleaned 164 @ 56 like a toy in Beijing. This is 4 kilos under the world record by mutlu, who is a confirmed doper. You really don’t think chinese young athletes are not on drugs and they are just genetically superior to everyone?
Go translate a Russian forum for weightlifting. There are always drug sections and they have 15 year olds asking for advice on cycles for weightlifting.
Evgeny Pisarev from Russia got busted at 17 for drugs. 2 year suspension now back @ 19 and won the junior worlds. i’m sure he spent that time off training naturally.
Just come to terms with it, every country uses. You think Greece and Bulgaria are the only ones systemically doping? No, they are the only ones that got caught. They aren’t even superpowers anymore and you think the countries beating them are clean? Thats not how it works in weightlifting. Professional weightlifters on drugs always beat professionals off drugs which is why every professional is on. If it is your job to win championships and you know other athletes use it would be stupid not to use.
Its not just take drugs for a year and be an elite athlete either. These guys are on drugs for years and they start very young. They also train harder than any American could imagine. Naim trained 12 hours a day as a teenager and was in so much pain he couldn’t even fall asleep some nights. His coaches had to carry him to bed after training until midnight. No American would ever go through that pain for weightlifting and very few would go through it for success in any other sport.
shatoy.borda.ru russian weightlifting forum- they have a thread providing dosing for young athletes using dianabol to keep it “safe”. i know the age of one of the kids posting in there was 15 at the time.
the usa sucks because lifters don’t commit to using, there is no support system or reward system for big time athletes and they therefore need to get a job after college. there is also a ton of testing and they can’t use like other countries can. arguing that there are no good athletes lifting for the usa is just stupid. yea the numbers are nowhere near the same as china, but bulgaria had about 4k lifters in their prime. georgia has far less and they still outproduce us. they can’t even train in georgia because they don’t have facilities adequate enough so they worked out a deal with poland… lance frye isn’t a good enough athlete? put him in another country as a kid where weightlifting is important and he would be a champion. what about kendrick farris? and since when do chinese exceed at all speed strength sports like it is a genetic predisposition? they admit to only being good at weightlifting because they are smarter and train harder. this was stated in an article this summer before the games by a head chinese weightlifting official.
weightlifting is “fun” in the usa. its not life. in russia, china and other countries, it is life for these athletes which is why a doping test doesnt scare them. American weightlifters don’t lift to get out of poverty like the chinese do. do you think the chinese are afraid of taking drugs their coaches give them if their job is on the line? hell no. but then again, like i said before, these athletes know a form of commitment that barely any american will ever know because of societal differences.
drugs aren’t the only reason. americans can dope all they want they still won’t catch China. however, ignoring the fact that drugs play a major role in the development of elite weightlifters, especially after all the positives recently, is just being naive.
