I admit to being way out of the loop on this one, but is there a reason we have shown next to nothing in this event so far? China's got a ton of medals in it.

Didn't see Vander's topic below, but that thread got a little off track.



[This message has been edited by rap93 (edited 8/15/2008 10:11a).]

We have too many actual sports for kids with this type of talent to gravitate toward (see football, etc).

Not to mention, weightlifting is big area of chicom focus where they snatch kids young and train them all the time (while getting zero education). HBO Real Sports had an interesting segment on this 1-2 months ago.

Did you see the woman weightlifter that weighted 367lbs. That was one scary sight.

Any American that lifts weights compulsively takes PED and either makes millions pretending to wrestle on TV, or shaves their body, and lubes up with oil, as a body builder.

Either way, they'd have to quit taking PEDs, to compete... or take what the Chinese are taking.