Slavicity and Weightlifting

[bi0boy]

Is there something about Slavic people and lifting weights?

Most of the medal winners are from Belarus, Russia, the Ukraine etc. Maybe their inherited pale skin and excess flab gives them stronger arm muscles?

Or perhaps it's a social thing, with vodka-addled Soviet fathers gurding their children to pump iron in the basements of decrepit towerblocks?

 

[JTG]

I've always assumed that whereas big buggers over here go into rugby, big buggers over there lift weights.

 

[N_igma]

I've always assumed that whereas big buggers over here go into rugby, big buggers over there lift weights.

Romania have a rugby team..........of sorts.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Do chinese people count as Slavs then?

 

[JTG]

More the exception than the rule though

Romania would have been the sixth nation ahead of Italy if they hadn't had their revolution. Most of their players were in the Securitate and it kind of imploded when the communist state went down

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-08/17/content_9445503.htm

 

[N_igma]

The Chinese are dominating a lot of sports Europeans used to dominate, like diving and some field events.

 

[JTG]

The Chinese are dominating a lot of sports Europeans used to dominate, like diving and some field events.

Their women have reached the hockey final

 

[CharlieAddict]

the chinese have a great history in power lifting - won loadsa gold in olympics since i can remember...

 

[Pip]

Slavic people don't have excess flab

 

[CharlieAddict]

yes they're nice and trim.

 

[Pip]

yes they're nice and trim.

The hot ones are.

 

[CharlieAddict]

do you think those pics from the OP are hot?

 

[Pip]

do you think those pics from the OP are hot?

Fucking gorrrrgeous.

 

[CharlieAddict]

why aren't the Worlds Strongest Man candidates in the Olympics?

 

[littlebabyjesus]

Funnily enough, there's a thread on a Belorussian forum asking the same thing about Britain and cycling. Their conclusion is that it's the rain driving us all indoors to velodromes at the weekends.

 

[CharlieAddict]

Fucking gorrrrgeous.

i know what you mean.
and straight and even i'm getting hard looking at those pics.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

My fave weightlifter ever: Vasily Alexeev.

 

[Pip]

why aren't the Worlds Strongest Man candidates in the Olympics?

Because it's for amateurs?

 

[littlebabyjesus]

My fave weightlifter ever: Vasily Alexeev.

That's a young Bernard Manning.

 

[JTG]

Looks more like Fred Trueman. Didn't realise weightlifting was on Indoor League

 

[CharlieAddict]

That's a young Bernard Manning.

man that guy has big balls