The Olympic Coverage Sucks!

Been watching whenever I can and have yet to see any weightlifting. I caught a few highlights of the women's 75 kg class and that was it. They were impressive, to be sure, but only whetted my appetite for more. Anyone know when some more will be shown?

[LifterMike]

Yea when the hell are the weightlifting parts??? yea no doubt the swimming and gymnastics is cool but DAMN lets see some weights getting thrown! :

[abarlament]

I saw a bit of coverage of womens lightweight lifting, none yet of hte mens and I've pretty much been glued to my TV throughout the Olympics. It doesn't bother me too much when they try to get all the events some coverage. However... 2 hours of equestrian is too much, let's see something mildly athletic!

There is one commercial where an American lifter drops the bar after a his lift. The weights fall through several floors and destroys a car! Pretty funny, IMO. Have seen that commercial about 5 times......it is pathetic that it is the most weightlifting I've seen! lol

[gcs118]

Originally Posted by IronMan

There is one commercial where an American lifter drops the bar after a his lift. The weights fall through several floors and destroys a car! Pretty funny, IMO. Have seen that commercial about 5 times......it is pathetic that it is the most weightlifting I've seen! lol

haha I saw that commercial and I was cracking up. I think it's for some insurance company...but man that commercial is great!

[Kyle C]

They had awsome commercials, i got to see the 85kg class and watch the big upset

Kc

[arbit]

I got to see the heavist wate mens class, it was good
The iranian (reh zahzedeh?) set a worlds record in the clean and jerk. There was also this 6'8" german monster who got a bronze.

[arbit]

Some olympic videos (has thw WR clean & jerk)
http://www.macthrowvideo.com/Download.html

[nate]

http://www.macthrowvideo.com/downloads/WL2004.mpg

interesting technique there.;