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 ...

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 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 ...