2008 Beijing Olympics - Weightlifting

[Laver]

Open topic for all discussion around the weightlifting.

That 48kg Chen girl who won the gold - She incredible!

She blitzed the top competitors by around 15kg and made the last lift look easy!

She had more in her for sure, was wicked to watch.

Cant wait to see the rest of the lifting too!

[SoaringSwine]

I think the NZ boys are lifting on Tues&Weds or Weds&Thurs can't remember which. It's good shit to watch.

[ExpensiveUrine]

Mark (69kg class) will be lifting on Monday, instead of originally scheduled Tuesday. So my guess is it will be broadcasted around 4.30 PM on Monday, 11th.

Richie (77kg class) will be lifting on scheduled Wednesday, unless they changed it but Im not aware of the changes.

It's a shame that TVNZ is only showing classes with NZ weightlifters in them, with the country missing out on seeing what heavier boys are capable of!

[SoaringSwine]

Mark (69kg class) will be lifting on Monday, instead of originally scheduled Tuesday. So my guess is it will be broadcasted around 4.30 PM on Monday, 11th.

Richie (77kg class) will be lifting on scheduled Wednesday, unless they changed it but Im not aware of the changes.

It's a shame that TVNZ is only showing classes with NZ weightlifters in them, with the country missing out on seeing what heavier boys are capable of!

I'll have to sneak off to watch the work TV on Monday! 2012 for you EU?

[frogie2001]

those mini female weightlifters were soooo impressive.

[BIGKIWI]

Yep they were pretty dam impressive for their size

[nzmusclemonster]

Some great athletes in the womens weightlifting.

[ExpensiveUrine]

Mark (69kg class) will be lifting on Monday, instead of originally scheduled Tuesday. So my guess is it will be broadcasted around 4.30 PM on Monday, 11th.

Richie (77kg class) will be lifting on scheduled Wednesday, unless they changed it but Im not aware of the changes.

It's a shame that TVNZ is only showing classes with NZ weightlifters in them, with the country missing out on seeing what heavier boys are capable of!

I'll have to sneak off to watch the work TV on Monday! 2012 for you EU?

TVNZ was showing some of the footage of 53kg class women and 56kg class men this morning, around 2 am. Some very good lifting in men's class, a guy from China won it by lifting 132 in the Snatch and 160 in the Clean/Jerk. Setting a new junior world record in the Snatch. These sessions weren't mentioned in the TV Guide to start with, so now I'm not too sure about 4-30pm broadcast of 69kg class....but we'll see.

As far as goals, 2012 is definately on the map but main target is 2010 Com Games for now.

[Laver]

By the looks of the olympic weight lifting schedule its a few interesting evenings!

I can't get enough of this, it's amazing! Up now streaming from tvnz the 62kg finals, (gona be a big internet bil this month)

So something along the lines of sleep from 7pm - 11pm, Olympics from 11pm - 1:45am then back to bed for training in the morning~! Should be interesting doing that for a few days!

Saw Richard too, incredible lifting but not everything went his was so unfortunately he didn't make it out of his group.

Exciting~~!~!~

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[HQ308]

Did you see Ozkan Sibel from Turkey in the women's under 48kg class? Amazing - and not bad looking too i might add

[SamWelly]

That elbow dislocation was sickening :?

[Laver]

I actually thought it was shoulder, but yes poor bastard.

I like all the Chinese people running on stage to block the view tho, its cute.

Very appropriate too though.

They're not showing the 77kg Finals on tvnz tonight, No way for me to see them

[Laver]

They're not showing the 85k finals or hte 105+ Kg finals either~!

Bastards!

[sponge]

does anyone have freeview? i heard that there are like 2 or 3 channels playing different olympic stuff???

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[SoaringSwine]

They're not showing the 85k finals or hte 105+ Kg finals either~!

Bastards!

I'm going to watch it online on the TVNZ website.

[Laver]

SS,

You'll be bitterly disappointed when you find they're not screening it there

Sponge,

yes I'm watching all the freeview channels on the tvnz website, they're pretty good, let you pick and choose what you want to watch mostly.

Haven't got all the weightlifting though !! :cry:

[SoaringSwine]

SS,

You'll be bitterly disappointed when you find they're not screening it there

Sponge,

yes I'm watching all the freeview channels on the tvnz website, they're pretty good, let you pick and choose what you want to watch mostly.

Haven't got all the weightlifting though !! :cry:

Dunno where you got that from. I've got my olympics watching planned out... Weightlifting is on Sunday and Monday 11PM-1AM and Tuesday 7:30-9:30.

http://tvnz.co.nz/content/1985383

[Laver]

SS,

I know about those viewing times - but they don't have the 85kg Finals or the 105+ Kg finals.

[Laver]

94kg Finals 2300hrs baybee! O yea`~

[SoaringSwine]

Anyone else watching it at the moment?

[SoaringSwine]

The commentator is an idiot. He completely missed that the lift got red lighted and was wanking on about what a great lift it was.

[poos_n_wees]

We don't have freeview

Am watching via live stream on the TVNZ website. My internet connection is painfully slow

[SoaringSwine]

We don't have freeview

Am watching via live stream on the TVNZ website. My internet connection is painfully slow

I'm doing the same. Luckily my internet is holding up.

[big MAC]

I'm apathetic.

I'd rather watch them on youtube in a few weeks, than deal with a few lifts interspersed with marathon running. Looking forward to 105kg+ final, Steiner vs Scerbathis vs Chigischev.

[SoaringSwine]

Oh man that's some bad commentary:

"he's got it up to there, he's done that bit, now he just has to do the next bit"