Meanwhile at Youth Worlds 2017 …
16 year old CJ Cummings (69kg) clean and jerks 185kg for a new youth world record!
Best of Olympic Weightlifting
Best of Olympic Weightlifting
Meanwhile at Youth Worlds 2017 …
16 year old CJ Cummings (69kg) clean and jerks 185kg for a new youth world record!
Is that Pyros Dimas in the background?!
I was wondering that too. If so that alone added 5kg to the lift!!!!!
I think so. He’s a technical director of the US team.
http://www.teamusa.org/USA-Weightlifting/Features/2016/July/18/Pyrros-Dimas-Joins-USA-Weightlifting
That forward torso lean, amazing the kid can jerk that weight and be stable.
He would have taken the c+j gold in the European Championship with that lift, that’s crazy. Matam did 180 kg
Finally a truly CLEAN lifter who wins gold and sets a record fair and square!!! Incredible!
As clean as Justin Gatlin?
I don’t know why americans always claim that.
I’m being sarcastic, as hard as that may be for people to believe. I’m an American passport holder but I can only laugh at people who think American athletes are any cleaner than athletes of other nations. It’s just that I’ve seen comments online doubting and questioning CJ Cumming’s performance and the immediate response is hordes of internet fanboys and fanatics attacking them and calling them haters and pathetic trolls.
Pyrros bringing some of that good old “olympic spirit” from Greece.
That forward lean is pretty scary to look at (dare I say ‘inelegant’ too?).
Of note is also the huge difference between his snatch and his C&J (over 35 Kg), which I think will have to be worked on to hope for medals on the Senior stage.
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IPB