Why isn't Powerlifting in the Olympics?

WSM is already bigger than any olympic event. There's no point.

Yeah, we have the WSM and the Arnold, but there should be an oly comp too.

If they can do nigga footraces they should be able to do strength sports.

but they would be on a lot more gear and taking different, stronger shit if they didn't have to worry about beating a drug test

Yes it is.

Why the fuck shoud there be a sport for lazy fat fucks like powerlifters? They are a disgrace to lifting. If they were serious, they would strive to get the physique of a lifter.

There are natty people at the Olympics
>sailing
>equestrian
Horses are arguably tested more than humans at the Olympics and sailing doesn't benefit from peds

They'd have to be way more subtle about it. There's no way they'd be able to cycle as much as they do without creating a shitstorm.

No because whites will always win.

>sailing doesn't benefit from peds
Why?

>sailing doesn't benefit from peds

You're naive. Those people are willing to spend millions to have engineers take a look at the design of their sails to maybe shave off couple of seconds off a race under ideal conditions. PES would probably achieve more than that. There isn't a sport out there where athletes wouldn't benefit from one PED or another.

How do athletes get away with it, with more and more rigorous testing. Is there some super secret supplement that hides it all or is it inside corruption? Makes sensd why Russia gets fked over.

because of this
youtube.com/watch?v=nLVJTBZtiuw

It's both. There are orgs that run competitions as well as do the drug tests, so if the sport is dirty they'd lower it's prestige and profitability by admitting it. Another thing is a money issue, a single good poverty ball player makes more money a year than independent anti doping agencies so there's a lot more incentive to pour money into finding hard to detect drugs to make money vs losing money to keep sport clean.

because it's a "sport" for fat retards, oly lifting is hundreds of times better

B-BUT MUH STRENGF
DEY SQUAT 900 LBS

because its for fat unathletic retards

nobody wants to see that

Where's all the Puget whistleblowers at, always feels like Russia gets the short end of the stick.
Phelps and Bolt have to be the best con men on the planet.

Kek

russia got fucked over by political reasons. it was a political sanction meant to intimidate them

>olympic sailing? wtf

>tfw replying to b8
Powerlifting is a weight class based sport. Only the heavier classes are fat. Oly lifting works exactly the same way.

According to the wikipedia article on powerlifting, it's in the process of being included in the olympics.

>athletes natty in sailing
not after rio

Is Eddy Hall not Natty? :(

strongman isn't totally standardized, and the olympics is all about standardization

Because it doesn't look athletic enough, so no tickets, no fans viewing it, and no ad revenue from TV.

he looks like a bearded frog

this makes me want to switch to high bar

Let's ask a more serious question

Why is olympic style lifting even in the Olympics in the first place?

How is lifting a weight up and down at your own leisure athletic?

Out of all the lifting diciplines, strongman is the most qualified because athletes are put head to head with varying challenges and variables.

There is a reason people actually watch The World's Strongest Man

Yes, few people would pay to watch 600lb freaks picking things up and putting them down in a stationary position. Oly lifting has explosiveness which make it a lot more interesting to watch

>Oly lifting has explosiveness which make it a lot more interesting to watch
is this a real post?

Compared to powerlifting, yes. Your image proves nothing, either, as if pl wasn't full of fat freaks too.

PL is full of muscular men

Strongman is full of muscular men

The only muscular people in Oly are the celebrities like Klokov or the Chinese one who lift specifically to also look good.

Your entire lifting routine revolves around primarily back and leg movements.

case and point:

Donny Shankle 6'2"

Here comes the powerlifturd internet defense force

>The only muscular people in Oly are the celebrities like Klokov or the Chinese one who lift specifically to also look good.

>Your entire lifting routine revolves around primarily back and leg movement

lmao you people are a fucking riot

compare that to Garrett Blevins

youtube.com/watch?v=yWFtM2RGDtg&ab_channel=GarrettBlevins

6'0"

because the olympics already has a barbell sport which is 10 times more impressive

strongman > powerlifting > oly lifting

>oly lifting not explosive
youtube.com/watch?v=q5daKaqjYas

'cause it's fractured as fuck with tested/untested feds, bench shirts/suits/slingshots/wraps/raw, and other weird variants that make it impossible to define what the core of the sport is. Plus longer term records are unreliable due to drug usage.

Fucking wife-carrying is more defined a sport than powerlifting.

or that shit where they chase cheese down a hill.

Don't bother arguing with powerlifting retards, they are ashamed by the truth

Can you not read?

Strongman>powerlifting>oly

Strongman is by far the most impressive and well rounded sport based on lifting weights.

Oly is a joke. Powerlifting is a "sport" is training is a sport. Strongman is the shit.

Care to explain why oly is a joke, when it requires the most highly developed technique out if the three, the most finess, but through whom, success can be found in a multitude of ways, where through incredible efficiency, god-given explosiveness, or raw strength?

>deadlift
>sumo stance
u avin a giggle?

>b-b-b-but muh EYYPEEFFF approved form!
Just because they weren't able to make the rules specific enough to rule it out, doesn't make it a real lift.

says (You), some random bitter dork on an anonymous board

Strongman is cool, but it will never reach olympic status. Regarding the other two, you are clearly delusional.

Lmao @ powerlifters and weightlifters arguing at which sport produces better hypertrophy
I respect both but lets be honest if you train either one without doing any exercises for hypertrophy you will look like shit. No point in cherrypicking athletes who train to look good as well as compete to prove your point.

Because IDGAF if you can hork a half ton off the floor, an ox can do that. But NO powerlifter can do this:

youtube.com/watch?v=zkGFAZK-7zM

do something actually athletic and maybe you can be in the Olympics, fatfag

he makes it look so easy

>Not respecting both disiplines.
No oly lifter could deadlift 450kg+ either.
A lot of elite oly lifters, strongmen, powerlifters are elite because of their genetics & work ethic (ofc drugs but anyone can take drugs). They'd be competitive in any of the other sports as well if they trained for it.

Because it's not flashy, powerlifting has strict, controlled movements while oly has the bar flying around all the time.

Think of a push press and the ohp, the latter is flashier and more attractive to a crowd. The difference between weightlifting and powerlifting is even more noticeable.

Strongman is good but not as standardised or popular.

Also you need strong lobbying to push a new discipline, the IOC is full of jews

>oly
>the most technique
>train for exclusively two movements

top kek

>bitter

>579lbs
>half a ton

are you dumb?

wow someone cant do something they didnt train for!! woop de doo
please fucking kill yourself

Can someone explain the appeal of doing oly over strongman?

You only do two lifts vs races, timed events, dragging cars, flipping shit

As opposed to 3 movements that are much simpler.

Because the Olympics is a competition for athletes, adding powerlifting would be a disgrace to the word athleticism.

>look at me! i lifted weight a few inches for a single rep! who cares if weigh almost as much as the bar im lifting and will probably have a cardiac arrest walking off the platform because im so hardcore and manly! *proceeds to eat 10,000 calories of big macs whilst listening to cringey icelandic metal*

It's highly addictive

Powerlifting is the equivalent of watching football players train in the gym or run routine movements and calling it a sport.

>iran

No, it's the equivalent of watching a beast of burden push a cart. Unathletic, bovine displays of dull strength

>yeah we are gonna move tiers and flip shit!
>so manly and cool!
This is exactly why it will never be in the olympics. The whole sport is so silly youd think a child thought of that shit.

lol

>I only do two lifts and even recreational lifters are bigger than me
>*tips barbell*

Log lifting, car dragging, tire flipping, farmer walks, yolk walks, car suspenders, ALL WHILE RACING SOMEONE ELSE is much more fun to watch and no doubt much more fun to do.

Your sport is the same as tossing a football back and forth vs actually playing football

>what are weight classes
>who is holley mangold

It's nice but it's something that a bunch of drunk rednecks would think up to pass the time, it doesn't belong in the Olympics

>genuine application of strength for well rounded dynamic movements that you can't do

>I-I didn't w-want to d-do those a-anyway

sorry you weren't born tall

1. I dont even do weightlifting movements so its not "my" sport
2. The 2 lifts require a very complex technique compared to lifting shit and running around with it. Again it sounds like a child thought of it and said "wow that will be totally awesome!!!" next thing you know its an actual sport.

>there isn't technique behind log lifting
>there isn't technique behind atlas stone lifting
>there isn't technique behind dragging large vehicles
>there isn't technique in yolk walking

t. manlet

Why dont we have a spaghetti throwing contest as well? I bet you cant throw spaghetti as far as i can, pussy.

>yolk
Do you even compete

Theres technique like theres a techniqie to any movement but anyone can learn that shit in a day and do it. All strongman tests is absolute strength.
The only lift i can say that seems to require a difficult technique is the atlas stone but no one gives a shit because like said it looks like a bunch of drunk rednecks thoight of the whole sport.

>All strongman tests is absolute strength.
All oly tests is the ability to hump the bar with enough force so you can duck under it and catch it and then stand up with it.

Oly lifting reminds me of parlor tricks.

Still 10× more respectable than strongman and powerlifting

How can it be when a vast majority of non-celeb oly lifters look like shit?

>Yeah, I lift
>but you don't look it though.

The OHP was actually an olympic lift as part of the clean and press until the 1970s, and oly lifting was INFINITELY more popular in western countries before it was removed.

that was back when oly lifters looked like they lifted.

I think when they removed the OHP, it all went downhill. Now we have t-rexes running around.

Strongman competitors dont look like they lift either. Theyre all hust fat fucks.
If you wanna see good physiques go to a bodybuilding show. Thats not what strength sports are for.

>Strongman competitors dont look like they lift either. Theyre all hust fat fucks.

Cringey. You really are assblasted as fuck aren't you?

You don't do strongman, never did, you are some pimply fatass who smells like cottage cheese and squats 300 lbs while listening to Hatebreed and mumbling to yourself like an autistic retard in the gym, roleplays as a competitor in an Micronesian hieroglyph study group board because you have some sort of fag fetish with big men doing manual labor, and spergs out at people for suggesting that farm work like hauling logs or pulling stones isn't fit for an Olympic sport

Did you know that people project their own insecurities in specific insults?

They do it because it hits them especially hard so they think it will hit the person they're insulting.

Totally agree. Oly lifting is probably the olympics' biggest victim of politics in that respect.

And since it was the one lift that demanded a decent mixture of explosion, flexibility, AND raw strength, removing it allowed the fucking retards who coach it to pretend being strong isn't as important as MUH TECHNIQUE so we've just lost to the Russians and the Chinese for the past billion years anyway.

Did you know that no one with half a brain believes in freudian projection bullshit except butthurt fags holding back tears of anger?

shouldn't you be listening to Hatebreed?

truly is a shame. OHP is very fun.

You just described the majority of this board

All this sperging out about which one is better, when the fact is only one: Olympic lifting is an Olympic sport, powerlifting and strongman aren't

No wonder some people here are so angry.

Strongman fags angry that no one evem cares to consider their "sport" in the olympics