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[ezrarh]

Kazakh guy made that 224kg c&j look easy.

 

[masud]

Mo' gold?

Mo' gold.

 

[Meadows]

WHAT A JUMP!

I'm watching the BBC 1 feed and the football.

 

[Chumly]

WORLD RECORD BABY

 

[white dynamite]

Well done, ladies!

 

[Adamm]

Kazakh weightlifter is completely ridiculous. Just broke olympic record like it was nothing.

Yeah, he looks like could beat WR easy!

 

[mrklaw]

I wish iPad had split screen so I could have GAF and a video stream while watching tv. Might borrow my kids' iPad

 

[Dark Stalkers]

ilya ilin confirmed for alpha male

 

[DeFiBkIlLeR]

A Ginga proving it need not be a debilitating condition!!!

 

[Psychotext]

Too much going on, argghhh!

 

[Meadows]

A Ginga proving it need not be a debilitating condition!!!

+ dat swag

 

[weekend_warrior]

US looking like they got this

Thank god for swimming events.

 

[Diprosalic]

Thank god for swimming events.

15 out of 25 golds in swimming. dominating.

 

[MrToughPants]

Ilya's first C&J is everyone else's second

lol

Has hit 235+ in training same for Ivanov.

 

[Kevtones]

Holy shit Mike Powell still has the WR? I went to a house/dinner party and met him when I was a kid.

 

[The_Hitcher89]

What't the longest standing WR for Olympic events?

 

[Adamm]

What't the oldest standing WR for Olympic events?

Probably long jump.
24 years for women, 21 years for men.

 

[Meadows]

haha @ the official

 

[datruth29]

Holy shit Mike Powell still has the WR? I went to a house/dinner party and met him when I was a kid.

His Long Jump was god like.

 

[Wes]

Line judge put up the wrong flag :lol

 

[Meier]

Fuuu, flipped over to field hockey and the women missed an empty netter that would have tied it up. That's too bad. Had no clue we even had a team though tbh.

 

[Jezbollah]

His Long Jump was god like.

The dual with Carl Lewis that day has never been surpassed in athletics IMO.

 

[szaromir]

I'm constantly thinking if I should watch the disciplines I actually care about (mostly tennis and volleyball) or some niche stuff where Olympic gold is the highest achievement in that discipline.

 

[fuenf]

Probably long jump.
24 years for women, 21 years for men.

Shot put is at 25 years for women. Doubt they'll ever come close to that again: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_record_progression_shot_put_women

Men's hammer throw 26 years. : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hammer_throw

 

[Leonsito]

Long jump was the highlight of athletics for me along with 100m, it sucks so much nowadays...

 

[Adamm]

Shot put is at 25 years for women. Doubt they'll ever come close to that again: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_record_progression_shot_put_women

Strange that it & long jump last so long, but swimming records seem to broke every year.

 

[Diprosalic]

Shot put is at 25 years for women. Doubt they'll ever come close to that again: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_record_progression_shot_put_women

there are even older ones for example: womens 4x100m relay record is 27 years old.

 

[fuenf]

there are even older ones for example: womens 4x100m relay record is 27 years old.

never said that those were the oldest. i just looked at the sports where doping would presumably have the largest effect

 

[DeFiBkIlLeR]

Lol..Lineker and Thorpe having a bust up.

 

[CrunchinJelly]

Lol..Lineker and Thorpe having a bust up.

I missed it... time to rewind the stream.

 

[luso]

Damn, that Kazakh weightlifter!
Watch the final lift!

 

[duderon]

Strange that it & long jump last so long, but swimming records seem to broke every year.

Good article from Nate Silver on why swimming WRs are broken much more often than T&F WRs.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/29/s...l?_r=3&partner=rss&emc=rss&smid=tw-londonlive

 

[Deadman]

I refuse to believe that he is not secretly Hercules. Its insane.

 

[krishian]

What't the longest standing WR for Olympic events?

Women's 4x100m relay record from 1980 is official, despite the doping allegations

 

[Psychotext]

Holy fucking shit at the weightlifter.

 

[Brinbe]

Ilyin, sheeeit

 

[mxgt]

Ilya is fucking absurd

 

[Adamm]

Kazakh weightlifter is trolling

 

[ezrarh]

Ilya with an easy world record. And one more attempt.

 

[MasterShotgun]

That Kazakh weightlifter is godlike. He just walks out there and picks it up.

 

[The_Hitcher89]

Lol..Lineker and Thorpe having a bust up.

My money's on Thorpe.

 

[datruth29]

WHAT THE FUCK AT THAT WEIGHTLIFTER?!?!?! HOLY FUCKING SHIT! HE MADE THAT LOOK LIKE NOTHING!

 

[Meadows]

Greg Rutherswag

 

[IceCold]

Fuck, Why is it that NBC, TSN, or CTV never show the weight lifting events or even archery or fencing? I'm tired of seeing all these swimming and gymnastic events. ugh..

 

[Greg]

That lift was incredible.

 

[luso]

World Record!

 

[fuenf]

Women's 4x100m relay record from 1980 is official, despite the doping allegations

that's the OR, the world record is from 1985. I guess women's 800m run could take the cake:

World Record for women:
Jarmila Kratochvílová 1:53.28 Munich 26 July 1983

29 years.

 

[Brinbe]

Phelps' last swim coming up.

 

[Threi]

Lol ctv changed to overall medal count to bring up canada

 

[Good Job Bob]

Men's 4x100m medley