American Open 2007 - Women's 69 kg class SNATCH

sampling of top snatches in the weightlifting at the 2007 American Open in Birmingham

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Sports

Tags:

• Weightlifting
• American
• Open
• Women's
• olympic

[Jester995]

These girls all have pretty nice snatches.

[highnrising]

They also have pretty good weightlifting techniques.

[ShotokanKarateRules]

@kappkids

It's not the same thing. Weightlifters train to lift more in the snatch and clean and jerk, which requires speed and flexibility. Bodybuilders basically just work each muscle until it's massive and their competitions are based on appearance. The fact that the weightlifters look big and muscly is just a side effect of the lifting - it's not their aim to be muscly.

[kappkids]

@ShotokanKarateRules same thing pretty much, they are building their body by lifting weights.. they have the body a of men...

[ShotokanKarateRules]

@kappkids

These women are weighltifters, not bodybuilders...learn the difference.

[gandis]

Ashley Suggs?

Any relation to tommy suggs?

[jest3r00]

@kappkids lol what ? Women don't have to be big to be strong. I take it you don't know the difference between strength training and body building. Look a Melanie Roach. She competed in the Olympics and she doesn't weigh more than 54kgs.

[bigislander72]

I thought the womens bar did not have the knurling in the center. Or are they using a standard 20 kg bar w/2.5 kg stoppers? Weight seems to make more sense that way; when the announcer said 80 kgs and the bar only had a red and just a little change, looked less than 7.5 kg of change on each side.

[PutYuInDaGame]

so weak.

[kappkids]

@chiconspiracy k

[chiconspiracy]

@kappkids

You're acting like women are completely different creatures, and weight training is bad for them. You have yet to demostrate, beyond a stupid cultural preference, a VALID reason why women should not lift weights, but men should. "Because I think it makes them look bad" doesn't mean shit. Some guys prefer anoerexia with the same line of logic you are using.

[kappkids]

@chiconspiracy you are disgusting, you have something wrong with your brain man. get help while you can.