Posted by Bekka H. on February 11, 2002, at 23:40:09
In reply to Re: What's your favorite Olympic sport?, posted by OldSchool on February 10, 2002, at 20:32:15
> > > > Mine is figure skating.
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> > > Olympic Weightlifting. The Bulgarians rule.
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> > > Old School
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> > Do you like weight lifting?
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> Yes I do...I like OLYMPIC style Weightlifting. The snatch and the clean and jerk. REAL
> weightlifting, not bodybuilding crap. Id like to get involved in masters level olympic weightlifting if I could ever get healthy again. There is a gym around here that teaches olympic style weightlifting, thats very rare actually as most gyms just do bodybuilder and pumper/toner junk. A few might do powerlifting. None of it is real weightlifting though.
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> > Is weight lifting in the winter Olympics?
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> No, Olympic style weightlifting is in the summer olympics. And USA weightlifting sucks...unfortunately the USA hasnt fielded a good OL team since the late sixties. All the good olympic weightlifting is over in Europe...mostly Eastern European countries...former Soviet Union countries like Russia and Ukraine. Greece and China have good teams too.
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> Its an interesting sport to me, however it will never be a great sport in the USA because its not a spectator sport.
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> Old School
************************************************Hello Old School,
That gym that teaches weight lifting near you sounds good! Do you do other sports, too, like swimming/running/cardiovascular activities? I find that swimming helps my depression better than most antidepressants. Sometimes it feels as if my antidepressants don't really "kick in" until I've done my laps for the day.
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