Female Weightlifting

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• swingaleg Posts: 103,110

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  26/07/14 - 17:13 #2

  Was that Canadian girl called Malbeouf ?
  
  My school French would suggest that translates as 'poor cow' or something similar.....:D

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• degsyhufc Posts: 59,251

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  26/07/14 - 17:24 #3

  Zoe Smith has just won Gold for England and set a new games record

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• Bosox Posts: 14,180

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  26/07/14 - 17:35 #4

  degsyhufc wrote: »

  The thing that has surprised me is that they don't look very muscley at all. I doubt you'd be able to tell that they're weightlifters.
  
  Amazing strength though.

  
  It's like boxing with different weight divisions. The one Zoe is in is a small one so they can't get that big, you could definitely tell the heavy weights are weight lifters.

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• Bhaveshgor Posts: 9,312

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  26/07/14 - 17:37 #5

  Also Weightlifting is not all about Strength a lot of it is Technique.

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• Stellen11 Posts: 8,627

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  26/07/14 - 18:06 #6

  Loved watching zoe win and that backflip! Superb.

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• alexjones Posts: 902

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  26/07/14 - 18:15 #7

  I heard about one of England's weightlifter's Rebekah Tiler is pretty damn good, and she's only 15! think she's competing here dunno when it's going to be though.
  here's an article about her:
  http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/general/others/weightlifting-britains-strongest-woman-represents-greatest-chance-of-first-olympic-gold-in-the-discipline-9391550.html

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• Bosox Posts: 14,180

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  26/07/14 - 18:48 #8

  alexjones wrote: »

  I heard about one of England's weightlifter's Rebekah Tiler is pretty damn good, and she's only 15! think she's competing here dunno when it's going to be though.
  here's an article about her:
  http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/general/others/weightlifting-britains-strongest-woman-represents-greatest-chance-of-first-olympic-gold-in-the-discipline-9391550.html

  
  She's in the Women's 69 kg which is on Monday.

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• DDRickyDD Posts: 5,250

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  27/07/14 - 01:07 #9

  I'm not usually interested in this but I hear there's a new weightlifter called Sarah Davies from my local area. Do any weightlifting fans know anything about her?

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• Mandark Posts: 47,963

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  27/07/14 - 01:42 #10

  alexjones wrote: »

  I heard about one of England's weightlifter's Rebekah Tiler is pretty damn good, and she's only 15! think she's competing here dunno when it's going to be though.
  here's an article about her:
  http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/general/others/weightlifting-britains-strongest-woman-represents-greatest-chance-of-first-olympic-gold-in-the-discipline-9391550.html

  Don't agree with under 18s doing this when they've still got a lot of growing to do. Surely it could cause problems down the line.

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• Centaurion Posts: 2,060

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  27/07/14 - 21:21 #11

  Mandark wrote: »

  Don't agree with under 18s doing this when they've still got a lot of growing to do. Surely it could cause problems down the line.

  
  Maybe males, but females reach their adult stature at 16 or younger .

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• pixel_pixel Posts: 6,694

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  29/07/14 - 17:25 #12

  Just watching this on the BBC. They have just said I have to watch it on the Internet. Just as it was getting to the end. Talk about kill the moment. I have noticed the BBC have chopped and changed all of the coverage. Very poor show.

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• degsyhufc Posts: 59,251

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  29/07/14 - 17:43 #13

  pixel_pixel wrote: »

  Just watching this on the BBC. They have just said I have to watch it on the Internet. Just as it was getting to the end. Talk about kill the moment. I have noticed the BBC have chopped and changed all of the coverage. Very poor show.

  What platform were you watching on?
  
  I was watching on Sky Red Button channel and it went right through to the medal ceremony.

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• degsyhufc Posts: 59,251

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  30/07/14 - 21:20 #14

  Bosox wrote: »

  It's like boxing with different weight divisions. The one Zoe is in is a small one so they can't get that big, you could definitely tell the heavy weights are weight lifters.

  The smaller ones have good figures and although a bit stocky not too muscley.
  
  The ones today had proper beer guts on them. If they had any muscles they were buried under layers of fat.
  
  I wouldn't say that to their face though

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