China's Lu Xiaojun Wins Men's 77kg Weightlifting Gold - London 2012 Olympics

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Highlights from the ExCeL - South Arena 3 as China's Lu Xiaojun wins gold in the men's 77kg weightlifting event at the London 2012 Olympic Games (1 August 2012).
China's Lu Haojie made it a double medal victory for the country with Cuba's Ivan Cambar Rodriguez winning bronze for his nation.
Although men's weightlifting has always been on the programme of the Olympic Games - except for at the 1900, 1908 and 1912 editions -- women started to participate only at the 2000 Games in Sydney.
The Olympic weightlifting programme has evolved greatly over time. Today, weightlifters compete in snatch and clean and jerk, and are placed according to their total combined result. From the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, men have competed in eight weight categories and women in seven. This total of 15 events remains unchanged.
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[@federicos8082]

That last clean and jerk from Lu Xiaojun was absolutely brutal...

[@dznuts123]

yep. most people don't even hit that depth in regular squat

[@theamjolnir9641]

204kg oh my god.

[@dl5066]

no clue how he only get 2 white lights

[@tomnguyen8546]

@@dznuts123 Asian squat

[@hyperion9131]

Lmao when he got the Cj he carried his trainer

[@scottt5181]

Look at Lu’s legs. He’s like the Michael Phelps of weightlifting. Dude was just built for the sport. Can’t help but root for the guy.

[@misterhamez]

was it by choice or was it the scouters who said you are now a weightlifter

[@scottt5181]

@@misterhamez Oh…. If you’re talking about how China recruits ya I’m pretty sure they told Lu when he was 6 or 7, “you are now weightlifter”.

[@bernardjameswilson]

@@scottt5181 it's both some chose to be in the program and some are chosen. But more often it's the latter.

[@-TK-]

@@scottt5181 he wasn't necessarily recruited and theres a couple interviews about the topic . He started lifting at 13.

[@dravennow8948]

he made it again in Tokyo! respect to Lu!

[@simonli6243]

He can overhead squat 204KG...jesus

[@TheLeviathar]

Simon Li He overhead squated 220 from a rack

[@Gasdetection]

His max ohs is 250 according to coach Ma

[@joe3276865536]

And a narrow grip at that.

[@PeterparkerSlaps]

He’s my favorite athlete of all time . His skill is beyond anything I’ve ever witnessed

[@Derrick2shot]

@@PeterparkerSlaps Amazing as it can be, however, Lu Haojie had a dislocation of some sort on the left arm for the silver medal. I remember watching TSN's top 10 olympic moments of the day, that day, and that wasn't there. I don't think either of these were.

[@Aakash.Singh1]

And now Gold again in Tokyo 2020 Olympic

[@bengough6772]

That 204kg clean when he dropped into the squat.... and then stood it up for the win... absolutely amazing.... and disgusting... and O.0 may be the most ridiculous thing i've ever seen

[@AymanB]

When they were celebrating it looked like greco-roman wrestling for a second! Amazing last lift!

[@NikeAirJordanGabes]

Ayman B. I thought Lu was going to hip toss his coach! 😂

[@jason1198]

204 which is about 450 lbs...holy moly

[@leeonr]

who was that judge who lighted the last lift that was as perfect it can get

[@agrelon]

From what I understand, the bar is supposed to stop oscillating after the clean is recovered before the jerk is performed. That could be the only explanation, cause everything else was perfect.

[@TheLeviathar]

agrelon yeah i guess, but it is hard with such weight on the bar to not oscillate xD

[@kayyyte]

the judge was totally jelly

[@r6guy]

blahallthetime probably the japanese judge.

[@leapinto]

+agrelon They changed the rules. Now only the lifter has to be still before the jerk, the bar can be moving. Ilya masterfully uses it by timing his jerk with the third oscillation.

[@asalwaysiko3130]

One more gold today in 2021! A nice way to say goodbye to Olympic.

[@elvis11241]

@@tliutliu I think he is...He is 37...

[@axe3425]

@@elvis11241 maybe he will join the next olympic

[@elvis11241]

@@axe3425 And that will be fantastic ^^

[@bernardjameswilson]

He might end up getting another one because the guy who beat him in 2016 got popped. The sample he submitted for drug testing wasn't his.

[@asalwaysiko3130]

@@bernardjameswilson yeah he'll take back what he deserved

[@Hope4freedom76]

Dont know why but i always seem to get teary when i watch weightlifting

[@pringleschapman7165]

Lu is a legend for weightlifting sports.

[@FinanceQuy]

Not surehow Lu could have possibly gotten a red light for that 204 lift... smh

[@MajinXarris]

Not deep enough

[@ru4965]

@@MajinXarris ???? he went as deep as possible

[@danielhenderson762]

@@ru4965 he's kidding. There's no such rule. Learn the sport before coming here looking like a tool. He was red lighted for double dip

[@ozwunder69]

@@danielhenderson762 cough could have been ossiliation or not straightening the legs after clean (which he has been red lighted b4) IWF Cat1 Referee here

[@lukasstirnemann980]

@@ozwunder69agreed!

[@matde100]

celebration.. just amazing. you can see how hard lu xiajun has worked for this

[@yuanzhenjiayuan3535]

china is awesome, i am proud to be an chinese.

[@SixySix704]

U should not

[@Truckingsx]

Powerful chinese

[@ChunWong]

One more gold Lu lets go!

[@mdbr155]

I love this athlete

[@janderson7459]

this dude put 450lb over his head from the ground..... meanwhile you have people thinking they are strong for deadlifting 450lb lol no where near as strong as this guy

[@alexshi9320]

at 77kg as well

[@francislau5436]

Congratulations to Lu Xiao jun amazing excellent performance won the Olympic gold medal. 👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👏👏👏👏

[@thlee3]

and he won again at tokyo 2020/21

[@jawadehud]

que barbaro el chino, pararse con mas de 200 kilos sobre la cabeza habiendo estado casi sentado en el suelo es algo casi sobrenatural

[@haroldpepete]

something worth mentioning Lu Xiajun didn't lift his third snatch because of coach misunderstanding, Lu lost his third attemp

[@mrmaker92]

Legend

[@alxforbidden]

Lu is a freaking beast.

[@SuperJakabaring]

well hulk is exist in asia i think. lol great performance especially in the last part. come from that position to stand in cull position. just a ridiculous movement. 👍👍👍👍👏👏👏

[@cooperhanson5564]

That bottom Boston in Lu's C&J is a thing of beauty.

[@burningknuckle26]

GODMODE ACTIVATED

[@aeaeiaeaie7455]

I want Lu to lift me

[@Kus519]

nice profile pic of shi, aaaaaa aeiii ei!

[@angelazhou4900]

Same, but it’d be so easy bc I’m 125lb 😂

[@mahlstadt]

Lu Xiaojun’s last lift is a metaphor for the Chinese nation

[@byReZio]

So excited for Rio!!!

[@Blitz_Shorts]

Yes, me too, In london Lu won the gold with 0 competition , but in RIO it will be the toughest 77kg battle ever.

[@miggyback]

ITS NOW!

[@byReZio]

miggyback LET'S GO LU!!

[@arielloza1671]

Fraser let's gooo !!!!!

[@mehmetdovikat933]

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[@etiennearmangau7653]

The most beautiful and skillest snatcher of all time.

[@TheDHEL13]

Awesome athletes!

[@rodrigolovo]

When i watched lu xiaojun's performance, i decide to be a weighlifter, why weightlifting is no popular? Y understood, it's beacause weightlifting isn't a hoby like a tradicional Gym, weiglifting is an olympic sport and you have to train max 24\7 less machines, justo a barbell ando plates.

[@TheNunakun]

I think I may switch my training from bodybuilding to weightlifting. He's inspirational :) Cheers to a fellow weightlifter!

[@gemmaporras6380]

TheNunakun felicidades halteros, lamentablemente en mi continente no es muy conocido esta disciplina solo por el crossfit muchos han dejado de hacer gym x envolverse en esta hermosa disciplina, me da pena haber conocido la halterofilia un poco tarde pero creo q nunca es tarde para el deporte q amas, LA PASION X TU DISCIPLINA MANDA !!! FELICIDADES HALTERAS !!!

[@rodrigolovo]

Gemma Porras most amazing sport, i began at 17 years old, not so young, but i work so hard

[@gemmaporras6380]

YO RECIEN CONOCI LA HALTEROFILIA el año pasado cuando tenia 26 y recien hoy soy feliz de poder elevar 50kg -110lb sin q me duela, espero seguir adelante

[@rodrigolovo]

Goog i snatch 120 and c&j 155 at 77 kg

[@dl5066]

no clue how Lu Xiaojun only get 2 white lights on the 204kg lift

[@Eclipton]

All it takes is 2 for it to be counted as a good lift.

[@dl5066]

@@Eclipton true but if 1 can give red on this, next time maybe it will be 2 coming from someone who knows little about weighlifting judging standards lol

[@ozwunder69]

@@dl5066 what level of Referee are you?

[@dl5066]

@@ozwunder69 Lol which part of "coming from someone who knows little about weighlifting judging standards lol" do you not understand?

[@abcwarrior91]

Asian the strongest race pound for pound

[@anaussie213]

No way, there are billions of them. They aren't ahead in any physical attributes including strength p4p (as if that was the case no other country would stand a chance against the billions of them). Cuba came third here. How many Cubans are there, 11 million? Now imagine if there were 1.4 billion of them...

[@Intranetusa]

​@@anaussie213 Yeh, most of people's physical differences are due to nutrition, culture, etc. If everyone had the same diet, same culture, same access to healthcare, same physical hobbies, etc, then the physical profiles of people around the world would be much more similar. As for the fact that over a billion people are in the same country - that fact actually hurts their chances of winning more medals because one country can only send 4 people to the Olympics. That region of the world would probably win more medals if a big country like China was divided up into multiple smaller countries because then they'd get to send much more people to the Olympics. For example, North Korea is a tiny country and it dominates in some weight lifting categories too.

[@Intranetusa]

This has little to do with being Asian, and Asian isn't even a race (and race itself isn't a great indicator of biological features either). Most of people's physical differences are due to nutrition, culture, etc. If everyone had the same diet, same culture, same access to healthcare, same physical hobbies, etc, then the physical profiles of people around the world would be much more similar.

[@abcwarrior91]

@@Intranetusa nope wrong race does play a role how are u gona explains why all the faster men are mostly black?

[@Intranetusa]

@@abcwarrior91 Nope, wrong. What you're describing isn't race, but a concept closer to geographic ethnicity. Why are many current long distance endurance runners who aren't fast at all mostly dark skinned people from one part of Africa? Why are some of the world's best weight lifters from a different part of Africa? Why are sprinters from yet another different part? That contradicts your claim about 'all black men' being fast. You can't be both fast sprinters and long distance runners and strong weight lifters at the same time because these exercises use completely different types of muscles (fast twitch vs slow twitch) in completely different parts of the body. Different groups of people in every single continent adapted to very different climates and geographic conditions. They also have very different cultures, diets, and hobbies, etc. That is why science has abandoned the use of race in favor of genetic markers tied to geographic ethnicity. And race was never solely biology, but a heavily based on culture and politics. In America, a 98% European ancestry person could be considered black because of the one drop rule. Chinese and Japanese people used to be considered two different races by some countries out of political ideology. Irish people occasionally got lumped together with Africans in the 1800s on racial categories. Race was not really a scientific concept.

[@Dr.WhetFarts]

i will change my name to lu

[@closed8786]

Sure don't want to mess with that guy...

[@gabriel.hongkong]

yeah he could overhead press a guy and smash him to the floor and possibly paralyze him

[@joeyfung-i]

WHO IS HERE AFTER ZACH TEALANDERS VIDEO?

[@jeremynguyen5480]

does anyone know what those barbell clamps are called? thry look super professional and secure..

[@q_q123]

204kg was clean asf

[@krish7067]

powerfull

[@arpussupra]

I was wondering about that too. After watching it several times I think it is because of the slight oscillation before the jerk.

[@turqayo]

Lu Xiaojun champion

[@imranzakhaev7389]

Is there a chance at starting weightlifting in 22 ? Olympic, Europe and world events ? (From a former boxer and footballer) YANITLA

[@durrantmiller8810]

İmran Zakhaev lu started lifting when he was 18

[@prodigypenn]

@@durrantmiller8810 I highly doubt that, especially coming out of china, they scour teh country looking for potential olympic candidates, and the best of those go to special training centers. They usually start them pretty young.

[@durrantmiller8810]

prodigypenn yeah I found out he started at 13 although by Chinese standards that’s pretty late

[@greatstate58]

What. Thee. Eff. I weigh 77kg and there is no world I could see myself in where I could put that weight over my head. Dude didn’t even have a belt.

[@Mandrew209]

How did that judge red light Lu on the clean and jerk?!?

[@tre-moon-dous6122]

its really scary to see the lifters snap their arm up, how do u prevent this from happening when doing power snatch? Is it always a risk they take when they perform it?

[@TheLeviathar]

The arm injury in weightlifting is still very uncommon, but it usually happens when torso if leaning forward and arms go to long behind the head, ofc it is a risk but really it wont happen unless something goes very wrong

[@tre-moon-dous6122]

Ludwig Eriksson thanks for explaining. Ive always admired the snatch

[@MrWackozacko]

Syahrul Anwar i love snatch too

[@ysphor]

Syahrul Anwar my advice is all sports have the risk of getting injured, so warm up before anything.

[@wmwilliam5527]

Yuen Soon warming up doesnt help when it comes to ur joints dislocating :/

[@himsdigari4745]

GOAT

[@zmc2046]

I can almost squat 204…pounds.

[@guillermodiaz2773]

Xd

[@kopk888]

quite a bit of empty seats. wish weightlifting is more popular

[@peterkumaryadavsinghkhan1650]

Gold again when he is 30+

[@tobacco118]

37

[@RxTim]

made it look easy, probably couldve done 177 if they let him

[@ericking1530]

I thought i read 204 lbs, (Cross fit can do this) Oh wait.... 204 KG, SON OF A **** too insane

[@rodrigolovo]

Crossfit is a good way to be fit, but weighlifting is another world any crossfiter could lift 200 kg, weiglifting is a life

[@toekneema]

these dudes out here breaking arms for medals

[@Blitz_Shorts]

Andranik Karapetyan will capture the gold in RIO

[@jeroenkastermans1151]

unfortunately he broke his arm

[@Blitz_Shorts]

Jeroen Kastermans yes, it was such a pity :/

[@pietrek1602]

He dislocated his elbow

[@itecnus3490]

204...

[@pepsichewy]

wow

[@rafalex22]

The socialism victory

[@heavenbright2342]

If they convert the kg to lb, I might match these guys... "might."

[@wesleywhite3648]

1:55 Hmmmmmm. Something doesnt seem right....

[@vinylhedgehog5574]

I'm puzzled, why were there two lifters both from China in the same weight class?

[@vinylhedgehog5574]

+待化的冰 oh, 对不起, 我的错。。。

[@YYwb]

ease ease

[@johnemmanuelorcullo6014]

SO HOT 😍😍😍

[@alemuller05]

Terrible la sentadilla del chino este

[@Itzak15]

Asians

[@lentejTV9]

hahaha

[@OCSmoke8]

Look at those androgenic shoulders! 😍