2023 Asian & PanAm Champs (not Games!)

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Let's see Chen do 176@61 tomorrow. Please.

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Let's see Chen do 176@61 tomorrow. Please.

I want to see that too. However, China is reportedly not looking great across the board, and a 6kg class drop might result in a raisin skin limping out on stage (or as Brian put it, old injuries start playing boss music).

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M61B recap:

MOHAMAD ANIQ Bin Kasdan (MAS) goes 6/6, 114/119/122 + 151/158/162, rounding off an excellent session for him. Nice technique overall, maybe a little crashy in the jerk but strong enough to support it.

ITOKAZU Yoichi JPN goes 6/6, 110/115/118 + 135/140/145. Snatches were middle snatches, cleans were high powers (last one had to work hard to stop it at ~1/3 depth). My guess (total conjecture) is he's managing some kind of hip pain or injury, either adductor or hip joint related - makes no sense to sandbag qualification as the future is uncertain.
EDIT: He had knee surgery is what I have heard.

HIRAI Kaito JPN goes 4/6, with 118+156 (122x, 164x).

CENIZA John Fabuar PHI goes 4/6, 125/128/131x + 160/165/168x = 296. This moves him up on the rankings from his previous 9th, to a provisional 4th (which we'll expect to see changed by tonight).

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I'd like to know regional incentive structures for winning non-Olympic classes nowadays. Does an UZB/TPE/ROU/COL/etc. coach get the same bonus for winning them? Less? Nothing?

Also here are the official excitement thresholds: W49 - 210 / M61 - 310. Below that and I'm switching channels.

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Also here are the official excitement thresholds: W49 - 210 / M61 - 310. Below that and I'm switching channels.

this is a nuclear take, man just really said "2009-2017 48kg intl WL didn't exist to me. shame on their families"

edit: im tired. cbf watching W55s, I will tune in for M61s.

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Lightweight women peaked with Wang Mingjuan. I'm qualified to assess this since I'm a boomer like her.

On a more serious note, I'm convinced Hou Z. gets hobbled along as W49 backup for this quad. No way do they expect her to beam past Jiang again without extensive rest.

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Lightweight women peaked with Wang Mingjuan.

I think there's some small argument to be made for Tian Yuan domestically, after Wang Mingjuan.

But actually agreed, not replicated internationally (or close) = no care.

On a more serious note, I'm convinced Hou Z. gets hobbled along as W49 backup for this quad. No way do they expect her to beam past Jiang again without extensive rest.

I agree. I wonder if it's a trend of people who qualified for, competed in Tokyo being thrashed too hard for too long, or if other there are other predominating factors.

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what the actual fuck are these openers in M61A

edit: 5 dnfs (one withdrawn, 4 on their own shit)

SILACHAI Theerapong THA - 127/130/132 nice lifts
SAPUTRA Ricko INA - 127/131/133 nice lifts

Chinese M61 supremacy battle
Dehydrated stone carving - 137/142x/142
Li Fabin - 136/141/143

After the 5 DNFs it was actually quite a nice snatch contest. Clean and jerks to come
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CJs slightly less of a bloodbath. Only slightly - both sessions had 12/27 or 44.4% success rate, snatches simply had more bombs.

MIRZAYEV Seyitjan TKM 145x not that close, 150x nowhere in sight twice
SAPUTRA Ricko INA hit 165 JWR
SILACHAI Theerapong THA hit 167 JWR, pending ITA
SAPUTRA attempted 168 for Olympic qualification (IRAWAN on 300) + JWR after but no dice.

LI Fabin opened 166, make but a bit shaky. CHEN Lijun opens 168, looks quite shaky, near maximal. LI takes 171, looks maximal and very shaky. CHEN takes 173, makes a very hard clean. Nothing in the jerk. Takes it again, does a pull. LI takes 174, clean pull.

Anticlimactic ending. Apparently Chen Lijun had a very difficult cut with a lot of weight to lose the day before - unsurprising.

Chen L. peaked in 2015-2016, he now looks like his 67 self, just a bit smaller (not as ripped as in his heyday). The axial movement is also clearly a hindrance nowadays.

the future would be now old men but also less good Chen is good enough to contest 61s, even if not the favourite

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Chen L. peaked in 2015-2016, he now looks like his 67 self, just a bit smaller (not as ripped as in his heyday). The axial movement is also clearly a hindrance nowadays.

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Tomorrow in the 67s and overweight 61s, it will be interesting to see what the two Chinese athletes (HE Yueji, DING Hongjie) hit.
Quite a packed category (partially given non-Olympic).

59A should actually be interesting though.