Olympic Coverage
I LOVE watching the olympics, but this year, the two events I’m most excited about watching are the gymnastics and Olifting.
For the Gymnastics tv schedule check out:http://www.usa-gymnastics.org/Story.aspx?tabid=772&prog=Events
Olifting starts tonight witht he Womens 48kg (Quebec lifter competing) weight class airing on CBC 7-9pm.
Womens 53kg (Melanie Roach Competing) airs 12:30-2:30am August 10th on Channel 4
Womens 58kg (my weight class)B group and 62kg men (BC Lifter competing) airs 7-11pm August 10th
58kg (my weight class) women airs 12:30-2:30 August 11th
63kg B (Christine Girard and Natalie Wolfolk (casey burgeners fiance) class) Group airs 7-11pm August 11th
63kg final ((Christine Girard and Natalie Wolfolk (casey burgeners fiance) class) 12:20-2:20 August 12th
75kg Women (Jean Larsen competes) August 14th 7-11pm
75kg finals August 15th 12:30-2:30am
105+ Men 4-6am August 19th Which unfortunately will not include Casey Burgener-check out info here http://www.kellyfrankson.com/2008/08/casey-burgener-cool-lifting-video/
Also found some interesting olifting olympic articles:
http://www.cbc.ca/olympics/weightlifting/story/2008/05/08/f-olympics-weightlifting-essentials.html
http://www.cbc.ca/olympics/olympians/story/2008/06/19/f-olympics-jeanelassen.html
What events will you be watching?
48kg weight class was very cool to watch last night. On http://www.cbc.ca/olympics/schedule/daily/2008/08/10/weight_lifting/
you can watch livefeeds of the actual events so it was two hours of uninterupted (no commercials, no announcers..) live raw footage of the event so you got to see every single lift and when there were breaks in the action they would show the warmup area.
The chinese girl who won was AMAZING. She weighs 105lbs and clean and jerked 258lbs!!! New Olympic Record and 13lbs over the second place finisher and 60lbs over the Canadian (10th place).
It was also interesting to see the different body types of the lifters. Chinese girl who won was short and stalky, but then there was this french girl with long skinny legs (although it looked as though her lack of leg strength was her shortfall).
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