l read the articles he wrote while in high school and based my training on the weighted ball throw plan he listed. Got my university coach to buy this film and the ''stubby'' javelins in 1975.

Francis is still heavily involved in the sport

Takes me back to the late 1990s when I was in highschool and discovered this amazing contest on ESPN2

Ouchie

Most of those events have been discontinued because they were too dangerous or else they were not really good tests of strength. Interesting how the sport has evolved to standard events.

Geoff Capes must have put out a hell of a lot more power. Pretty shameful loss co side ring his size

RIP cousin Geoff - it was always a pleasure to see him on TV for an event or commercial or on a video

This is lowkey raiders vs steelers 😂🤣 Go Raiders‼️🏴‍☠️

Me pa siem zo leuk ❤

Zo leuk me pa ❤

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He shouldn't be able to go that fast and stay that stable.😯

man … that’s some crazy stuff 😂

Bleu dude looks like his back tiore is flat... that backwheel is jiggling around like crazy....

Thank you for posting this. Jim Banich was my high school sweetheart and a dear friend. We lost him to suicide in 2014. His dream was to compete in the Olympics, and I always wondered if his failure to make the team in these Olympic trials began the long spiral to that tragic day.

Samuelson looks so young -- and quite a bit smaller than he later appears.

210 kg for overhead is huge (Gary Taylor) Since then Z and Eddie Hall did 215 and 216 kg respectively on the axle press -- which they also cleaned. No cleaning motion in this competition, however, making it easier. Still very impressive though.

Jeff’s loving wife, softly spoken, devoted and supportive of her husband, behind every great man etc…

Great technicians.

Awesome

I keep watching this to remind myself what decent roads used to look like. Thanks for posting.

I kid u not I was a kid of like 15 years old 1981 the old Track Series we used too have in NZ in the Northern Hemisphere winter Jan-Feb down here Auckland & Geoff Capes had won the Shot Put competition & was leaning on a normal sized bus that the Athletes had come in & he is back to it breathing heavily & the Whole bloody bus was moving if only I had a camera omg I’ve never seen anything like it before or since it was incredible

And he goes on to throw 94.58m and win the Olympics in 76! World record and Olympic gold at the same time - awesome!!

The way they thrown the stones onto the barrels !

Up the toffees!

Tremedous.This is what I want to see on telly.Forget the Prem and all the prima donnas,I want to see a lovely street with mums kids and old men smoking pipes watching celebs do random sporting tasks.Great stuff.

I absolutely love this...I have Frank Ryan's books and this looks like the field he was coaching (and the trenchcoat!).

This was not a push press. He did initiate the press movement with a body heave (aggressively pushing forward the hips, and using a backbend). This was still a valid olympic press

I wonder what his “real” training was like.

He deadlifted 500kg before they knew it was a thing. Time passed. In comes Eddie like nothing happened.

Ray noble would’ve beat Geoff at any other finale except tug of war I reckon

awesome when the world was a happier place

George Wood threw me his goalkeepers gloves when he played for Cardiff against Enfield in the FA Cup and Geoff Capes gave me and my brother the V’s when he was behind us in a car on the flyover in Cardiff!

As a young boy i remember going to goodison park around this time to see several of evertons new signings in teaining, and george wood was one of them, such a happier time in the UK then, ok, we had the tories 🤮...but as a boy i was incredibly happy, compare it to the absolute madness we're seing now 😖....good to see geoff looking so fit and healthy, both were nice fellers.....where did it go wrong in this country ???

Gentle giant.

42:06 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 That's why he is the favorite of the fans

I feel like these events used to be much more grip and arm focused (no straps, lighter but more awkward implements that you can't easily get your mass under), whereas today they're more tailored to moving sheer weight, taking grip out of it with straps, and locked in with bigger but less awkwards impliments. Nobody talks about this. The old school seems much more athletic to me/ transferable to moving random objects, which aren't necessarily made to be moved, and things like wrestling, arm wrestling etc. For some reason people stopped talking about straps in the deadlift when the established logical standard since the lift was invented was no straps on a normal bar. Benny Magnusson and Andy Bolton are still the best ever in that form. I think Andy still has the stiff bar no strap record.

Once the iron curtain came down in the early 90’s the game changed. I know it’s era’s, training, nutrition and recovery now. Big Z would have walked through this like it was warm up! Anyway, go big Geoff, I was a huge fan, watched all this in the 80’s. RIP legend!

He always reminds me of Desperate Dan , a larger than life hero , strong as an ox and an appetite to match . RIP Legend

Pacifico was definitely low enough in the squat !! bad call by the judges

I stood by the cage when Robert was throwing in meet in Missoula, Montana. He was throwing for SMU then and he was considerably less muscled up then but he still filled the ring up.

Zo te zien wordt hij getraind door Nico van Noort.

Funny as hell

Thanks for uploading. Spoilers below: Sulby Prince really stood out to me at the barbell lfit, he got in an argument with the referee and then just went all out as if his life depended on it to best Andy Drzewiecki as if his and the lives of his loved ones depended on it. Going all out until he passed out, it was a very dramatic moment. Glad my boy Slaney was able to win once again, was very impressed with him when he one his first competition.

Jesus thats a lot of food. What a beast.

.. I remember these two having a right argy bargy in basketball

Chapeau to Geoffs wheel builder! Rest easy big fella...

That bike must have thought WTF when Geoff got on.

"I'm not getting in it... I'm putting it on!". Capes, as he squeezed into a canoe.

A very nice guy! Sure enjoyed his Sammy Walker's BBQ all the years in Rowlett, TEXAS!