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sportingnews.com - 8/13/2008

No To the Nth Power, Weightlifting Division

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Sometimes, it's probably for the best that they don't show weightlifting a lot on NBC's coverage of the games. Janos Baranyai of Hungary went for 146 kg (326 pounds) on the snatch. Janos didn't make it, and his elbow vetoed the entire move by popping out of socket at the worst possible moment: with the full weight of the bar over his head. Do not watch this if you are squeamish, because it ...

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With Leather - Sports news and gossip, panda sex, and the occasional Toonces the driving cat Photoshop:  ARMS AREN'T SUPPOSED TO BEND THAT WAY

EDSBS:  YOU’RE NOT ALCOHOLICS, YOU’RE PROFESSIONALS.

We Rite Goode:  Take your marks: Olympic Blogs

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ARMS AREN'T SUPPOSED TO BEND THAT WAY
With Leather - Sports news and gossip, panda sex, and the occasional Toonces the driving cat Photoshop — In retrospect, Hungarian weightlifter Janos Baranyai probably should have tried to snatch a little less than 326 pounds.  Hee hee, "snatch"! [The Sporting Blog] 

YOU’RE NOT ALCOHOLICS, YOU’RE PROFESSIONALS.
EDSBS — ... And this is precisely why we’ve never been to Camp Randall. In the drinking Olympiad that is a weekend in Madison, we’re terrified that even with the impressive amount of liver conditioning already under our belt we’d wind up being less Michael Phelps and more Ranos Baranyai going up against competition like that. ...

Take your marks: Olympic Blogs
We Rite Goode — ... focused on Olympics coverage for much of the past week, and the hard-working Ziller (doing double duty with FanHouse!) wrote up seven posts over the weekend alone. Unfortunately, if FanHouse was Fourth Place Medal's weaker sister, the Sporting Blog is its drunker college brother who's obsessed with America's Dumbest Sports Videos; a series of three posts last week offered clips of a Chinese trampoline dunker falling on his head , the Hungarian weightlifter who gruesomely dislocated his elbow , and gym-goers accidentally dropping weights on themselves . Ha. Post ...