• Lou’sSavedRhinoM
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    42 years ago

    Women everything in sports is so laughably low-quality. WNBA star stuck in Russia and US wants to give an arm and a leg to get her. Leave her over there she isn’t a celebrity, no one cares about whether she plays or not.

  • @JasonGiovanni
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    42 years ago

    It baffles me that these federations just refuse to address or fix this shit. I think pretty much everyone agrees it’s stupid. Very fixable too. Limit grip width or add an elbow depth rule. Instead it seems like they wanna accommodate these clowns that bend the rules to the point of making the whole event and movement a joke.

    • coincollecter
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      42 years ago

      Or create some sort of algorithm that determines weight + distance moved and scores it. That might sound like a convoluted mess but it would be a more accurate measure of power than this satire

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        It doesn’t even need to be that complicated. You could even say people would start aiming to maximize their algorithm score and not the most weight, and who knows what that would actually look like. Just make the bench press look like an actual bench press for fuck sakes

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          Well it would be an upgrade from this. You would have to complete a rep to be scored at all. This may be determined a completed rep but it would have the lowest possible score for a completed rep at said weight (easily beatable). Then short people will say they’re at a disadvantage (as tall people do currently) …well then they would have to arch their back less or squat deeper to create a larger range. Probably too futuristic for where most people are at now. Maybe if Elon Musk creates a powerlifting federation one day.

  • @Pyjamabraun66
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    22 years ago

    Powerlifting haas become the paticipation trophy for retards of strength sports. While Olympic weightlifting requires you to have great technique and strongman also has a legit technique component alongside the strength and stength-endurance componente powerlifting federations allow these clowns to water it down more and more.