Men's Weightlifting - 94KG - Final - Beijing 2008 Summer Olympic Games

[khonfosh]

Akkaev was the best and should have come back with the gold. I don't understand why he competed in group B where he should have been in group A. Ilya, should not have been credited with 180 KG, that was obvious he did not control the weight and his knee buckled and he released early, even my 90 year old mother of my grandmother saw that. Symon is a steroid cheater who was suspended for four years and should not have been allowed to compete in the first place. Akaev Khadjimuorad all the way

[SmallersCY]

@khonfosh Akkaev was banned for drugs for 2 years in 2005

[tldevilsh]

ilya illin rofl what a goofball

[1967tuncay]

unbelievable they counted ilin`s first attempt as a godd attempt. he never had control of the weight and he let it down very early >>> scandal

[trinity9011]

@1967tuncay yeah didnt even lock out by the looks of it

[rychu1410]

Szymon Kołecki:

rekord świata( WR): 232,5kg

rekord Polski (country record) : 235kg

Jakieś pytania?? =)

[boskiromanfirma]

kolecki had knee injury before olympic

[DBBMino]

Wtf, he set a world record at age of 18 with a 232,5kg C&J but can't do 228kg at age of 26?

[Expl0rati0n]

Guy in the red has a nice package.

[kamikazeCORP]

Ilya is a beast and i reckon will soon be breaking WR also deep respect to Kolecki for shaving his head

[Myself0101]

1:22 i should have done more squats!

[sodiumfat]

I was there, it was awesome!

[Cubu47]

After all the years of training Kolecki still has trouble getting out of the whole.

[Sarge343]

I have noticed that almost all Polish weightlifters have relatively weak legs, especially when getting out of the whole. If they fixed that problem, we could expect some records from Poland!

[AusWeightLifter]

I agree within reason. Kolecki seems to have extreme trouble exploding out of the hole. But, Marcin Dolega seems to have the power to explode out of the hole with ease.

Just my opinion.

[FUZZYisBIG]

More speculation; watching the Poles training, them seem to do alot of snatches where they simply get into the full squat and drop it. Looking at Dolega with his insane snatch, but he doesnt seem to have the raw strength for big cleans, same as Kolecki.

[AusWeightLifter]

True. But, Dolega set that world record in the snatch with 199 a couple years back. Although, most footage (other than complete footage of a competition) only seems to highlight their snatchs.

The Dolega boys (all of them) are much better lifters in their own weights than Kolecki, personal opinion of course. I was never overly fond of Kolecki and his lifting.

[Myself0101]

i agree, dolega in my opinion really struggles with the clean and jerk. and in this sport it isn't enough to be good at one lift

[Myself0101]

'whole'? don't you mean 'hole'?

[ljdougall]

Kolecki clearly doesn't have the leg strength of many of the other 94kg lifters but manages to match them by relying on perfect positions, timing and technique. He can pull with the best of them, but where Ilin will stand with anything he can rack, Kolecki could rack just about anything but not stand up. I think his height within his weightclass is a large contributing factor. When he has an extra 4kg or so you can see how much easier his cleans are.

[Myself0101]

yeh i think you have it spot on there, but then surely the polish team need to ask themselves; why they aren't doing more work on the squats?

it would benefit them hugely in both lifts, i mean take for example marcin dolega: strong snatch (has even done 202.5 in training) but poor c and j = 225, which seems to be the same throughout the polish team, so maybe they need a new coach?

[AusWeightLifter]

Instead of a new coach, because their coach is a good one, getting them to the top level in snatchs, but CJs...

Maybe Mr. Polands Coach needs to assign more time and dedication to squats... Back squats, front squats, snatch squats... Split squats! (I don't know if any of you do split squats, but I have found they have helped with my jerks).

[jernmyre]

Actually its kolecki who owns the world record in the clean and jerk in the 94 kg class with 23something. And he sat that record at the ripe age of 17!!!!

[Myself0101]

and yet he struggled this year