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Olympic Weightlifter injury during competiton

theginnyray
theginnyray Posts: 208 Member
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Yikes! Check out this article about a South Korean weightlifter who's elbow snaps BACK:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2182414/South-Korean-weightlifter-takes-gold-worst-Olympics-injury-elbow-snaps-lifting-357lbs.html

Has anyone actually seen footage of this? That is crazy!

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  • karensoxfan
    karensoxfan Posts: 902 Member
    I did see that footage, and it looked incredibly painful. :(
  • Absidey
    Absidey Posts: 116 Member
    I watched it too, and it was awful. She held it for a few seconds with her elbow just slightly bent backwards, and I was cringing into my sofa. When she lost control of it and it went totally wrong, ugh. It looked scary as hell. Terribly painful too, I'm sure.

    Edit: Perhaps I should have looked at the link first. The injury I saw was the <106 lb women competition, but it was similar. I didn't know one of the men did it, too. His looks worse. Ouch!

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