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In regards to tennis, Shedova and Karantcheva(Kaz) both changed their nationality due to support and financial backing. Wouldn't be surprised that be the case in other sports too.

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In regards to tennis, Shedova and Karantcheva(Kaz) both changed their nationality due to support and financial backing. Wouldn't be surprised that be the case in other sports too.

Might be possible. A bit austere but what can you do. It's not a perfect world and I can't really blame them. If you would get an offer with a lot better wage and work circumstances, would you say no?

Turkey offered 10 million dollars for Hossein Rezazadeh if he would join their olympic team and win gold. But he didn't want to chance his nationality. I guess in some cases you can get rich in weightlifting. But nobody choses this sport because of money. I guess there in the states people with great strength talent choose NFL instead.

One of my favourite lifters, Nahla Ramadan, got kicked out of the Egypt's weightlifting most likely due to rumours that she is going to chance her nationality. The official version was that she didn't show up to the training camp, but that is quite hard to believe; she was on of the most promising Egypt's athletes at the time.

But still there are some odd cases in Russian's weightlifting team. E.g. Mikhail Koklyaev had some problems with them and then he changed to strongman competitions. As far as I'm aware, his first target would have been to take olympic gold but now it seems impossible.

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I think that powerlifting is probably more spectator-friendly because it tends to have a more aggressive, razammatazz style than Olympic lifting, which seems a purer and more lonely style of lifting to me somehow.

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48 Women
Place Name Date of Birth Nation Group Body Weight Snatch Clean && Result
1 CHEN Wei-ling 1982/01/04 TPE A 47.70 87 kg 113 kg 200 kg
2 CHEN Xiexia 1983/08/01 CHN A 47.70 83 kg 108 kg 191 kg
3 PENSIRI Lao 1984/01/17 THA A 47.40 83 kg 103 kg 186 kg
4 CHANU Nganbam soniya 1980/02/15 IND A 47.85 74 kg 93 kg 167 kg
5 AITPEKOVA Zhanyl 1991/01/01 KGZ A 44.55 50 kg 65 kg 115 kg
OUT ZAIRA Zakaria 1987/02/28 MAS A 47.85 70 kg OUT
53 Women
Place Name Date of Birth Nation Group Body Weight Snatch Clean && Result
1 CHEN Xiaoting 1991/01/11 CHN A 52.70 98 kg 123 kg 221 kg
2 LI-CHUN Fang 1983/03/08 TPE A 52.45 93 kg 121 kg 214 kg
3 PRAPAWDEE Ja 1984/05/29 THA A 52.70 94 kg 120 kg 214 kg
4 MIYAKE Hiromi 1985/11/18 JPN A 49.25 83 kg 110 kg 193 kg
5 CITRA Febrianti 1988/02/22 INA A 51.20 84 kg 105 kg 189 kg
6 CHEREMSHANOVA Svetlana 1985/08/04 KAZ A 52.90 83 kg 106 kg 189 kg
7 SUMIDA Shoko 1985/04/18 JPN A 49.60 80 kg 100 kg 180 kg
8 RAIHAN Yusoff 1988/07/01 MAS A 52.30 73 kg 96 kg 169 kg
9 NGUYEN Thi hoa 1987/10/22 VIE A 52.85 70 kg 95 kg 165 kg
10 SETHI Minati 1990/02/11 IND A 52.85 72 kg 93 kg 165 kg
58 Women
Place Name Date of Birth Nation Group Body Weight Snatch Clean && Result
1 LI Xueying 1990/05/15 CHN A 57.45 101 kg 134 kg 235 kg
2 PAK Hyon suk 1985/08/04 PRK A 57.65 100 kg 133 kg 233 kg
3 JONG Chun mi 1985/03/15 PRK A 57.75 97 kg 126 kg 223 kg
4 WAN-HSUAN Lin 1988/03/19 TPE A 57.15 92 kg 120 kg 212 kg
5 OKTA Dwi 1986/10/15 INA A 57.30 88 kg 112 kg 200 kg
6 DUONG Thi bich 1987/03/15 VIE A 56.95 80 kg 100 kg 180 kg
7 DEVI Liren 1984/12/11 IND A 58.00 80 kg 97 kg 177 kg
8 MAIBAM Sunibala 1989/03/01 IND A 57.35 74 kg 93 kg 167 kg
9 KOSTENKO Tatyana 1988/06/09 KAZ A 57.90 70 kg 94 kg 164 kg
63 Women
Place Name Date of Birth Nation Group Body Weight Snatch Clean && Result
1 LIU Xia 1981/01/16 MAC A 62.80 101 kg 130 kg 231 kg
2 O JONG Ae 1984/01/17 PRK A 60.05 97 kg 132 kg 229 kg
3 MANEZA Maiya 1985/11/01 KAZ A 62.80 98 kg 131 kg 229 kg
4 NGUYEN Thi thiet 1984/10/27 VIE A 62.85 100 kg 123 kg 223 kg
5 WANDEE Kameaim 1978/01/18 THA A 61.75 95 kg 127 kg 222 kg
6 VINOGRANDOVA Svetlana 1987/11/21 KAZ A 61.40 90 kg 123 kg 213 kg
7 YING-CHI Lu 1985/04/06 TPE A 62.90 93 kg 120 kg 213 kg
8 HASHIDA Mayu 1986/04/26 JPN A 62.55 88 kg 113 kg 201 kg
9 NURUL Farahanah 1988/08/06 MAS A 62.65 90 kg 110 kg 200 kg
10 DAO Thi hong 1988/01/13 VIE A 60.45 85 kg 105 kg 190 kg
11 HIJAM Poireinganbi 1980/05/12 IND A 62.00 86 kg 103 kg 189 kg
12 SUNITA Rani 1987/07/17 IND A 62.05 75 kg 95 kg 170 kg
69 Women
Place Name Date of Birth Nation Group Body Weight Snatch Clean && Result
1 ZHANG Shaoling 1984/04/11 MAC A 68.70 107 kg 134 kg 241 kg
2 LIU Haixia 1980/10/23 CHN A 67.10 105 kg 135 kg 240 kg
3 YA-JHEN Wang 1987/11/11 TPE A 68.30 102 kg 134 kg 236 kg
4 YA-CHUN Kao 1986/05/21 TPE A 68.60 95 kg 125 kg 220 kg
5 SINTA Darmariani 1986/12/22 INA A 68.55 95 kg 123 kg 218 kg
6 NGUYEN Thi phuong 1984/06/28 VIE A 67.90 98 kg 115 kg 213 kg
7 YUN Saet beol 1987/07/27 KOR A 68.90 90 kg 120 kg 210 kg
8 TANI Ayano 1987/02/12 JPN A 68.85 90 kg 115 kg 205 kg
OUT HONG Yong ok 1986/08/19 PRK A 68.70 102 kg OUT
75 Women
Place Name Date of Birth Nation Group Body Weight Snatch Clean && Result
1 PODOBEDOVA Svetlana 1986/05/25 KAZ A 74.90 130 kg 150 kg 280 kg
2 CAO Lei 1983/12/24 CHN A 73.75 115 kg 143 kg 258 kg
3 WATCHARAWADEE Ra 1988/06/23 THA A 74.00 97 kg 128 kg 225 kg
4 YANG Houqin 1981/12/27 MAC A 74.40 98 kg 127 kg 225 kg
5 KHANITTHA Pe 1989/06/03 THA A 73.50 96 kg 123 kg 219 kg
6 LIM Ji-hye 1985/10/28 KOR A 74.20 99 kg 120 kg 219 kg
+75 Women
Place Name Date of Birth Nation Group Body Weight Snatch Clean && Result
1 KHROMOVA Tatyana 1980/02/26 KAZ A 78.30 115 kg 143 kg 258 kg
2 WU Jian 1990/10/21 CHN A 78.35 113 kg 141 kg 254 kg
3 ANNIPA Moontar 1984/09/09 THA A 104.10 114 kg 133 kg 247 kg
4 SHIMAMOTO Mami 1987/09/24 JPN A 104.85 102 kg 132 kg 234 kg
5 ABORNEVA Alexandra 1986/10/30 KAZ A 92.15 102 kg 130 kg 232 kg
6 JONAI Fumiko 1985/02/19 JPN A 113.40 100 kg 132 kg 232 kg
7 GEETA Rani 1981/09/16 IND A 111.40 100 kg 125 kg 225 kg
8 JESMIN Akter a 1985/03/10 BAN A 80.75 55 kg 75 kg 130 kg

A bit hung-over for olympic winner Prapawdee and Lei. Weightlifters can't be on top shape all year long. They have to work their condition proggressively. Fantastic comeback for Podopedova.

Youth world champs have allready started. here is the live scoresheet. http://www.iwf.net/scoreboard/scoreboard.php
official website: http://www.firstyouthwwc.com/

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3pipD5Qdg0

Nahla is/was one of my favorites, a gifted lifter even though she flamed out on 04. Link to one of her 03 performances.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3pipD5Qdg0

Nahla is/was one of my favorites, a gifted lifter even though she flamed out on 04. Link to one of her 03 performances.

Haven't saw that one. There was some rumours about her getting back to Egypt's weightlifting team before the olympics, but I don't know what was the real situation. I guess no since she wasn't there. Maybe some day she will come, maybe.

75 kilo class is looking really tough this year.

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Here it says that Nahla should have been participated Eleiko GP in 75+ category. But I can't see her name on the result sheet. Weird shit.

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Just wrote a story about Nahla in my blog http://maitolasi.blogspot.com/2009/05/que-vadis-nahla-ramadan.html

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A nicely-written biography there, thanks.  Yet another sad story there of politics interferring with the sporting world. 🙁

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A nicely-written biography there, thanks.  Yet another sad story there of politics interferring with the sporting world. 🙁

Thanks!

It just doesn't go the way that sports and olympics would bring nations together. Politics, propaganda purposes and so on.

I'm intended to write more about topic but so far I don't have enough information.

Chinese and Russian systems – especially in the soviet times – can be quite inhuman yet effective.

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