The weight figure listed for a lift includes the weight of the discs, bar, and collars combined ... athlete's clothes can be a maximum of 12cm in width. Similarly to other Olympic sports like ...

The clean and jerk comprises the final round of Olympic competition. It is a two-motion lift – the clean and the jerk – and allows for the use of much greater weight than the snatch. The first part, ...

The problem, Whylie explained to me, was that I was trying to move the weight, rather than my body. The goal in Olympic lifting is that you move around the bar, meaning that you don’t pass it ...