Why is American weightlifting so terrible?

This is true.

>Internet logic
Your guys just suck. Deal with it or change it.

just like america tries so hard to prevent its sprinters from roiding, right? oh wait.

America literally won more medals in Rio for weightlifting than Russia
check mate

NFL players dont train specifically to get their numbers up.

Why were Brasilian football players some of the best in the world? It was a shithole were only sports _could_ give you some money.
Look how shit the economy in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, etc. is. If you only get 500$ as an engineer, you try to make it with modelling, sports or other shit like this.

>iirc Shankle's best lifts

no the story goes that shankle beat klokovvv in a comp at arnolds in 06 when klokov was injury and just got sex after marry

but klokov weight 90 something kilos competing against 105 shankle

here they are competing

youtube.com/watch?v=_mvRz3wqMBs

cant find the clean and jerks it used to be up on the same channel

tbqh I think it's generally a pointless discussion that just gets everybody mad, but I remember someone talking about the russian model of success being along the lines of

>send out scouts
>find the most genetically gifted kids/teens in each region
>train them to the point where the weak/injury-prone/lazy ones drop out
>send best to national camps
>begin roiding

America's main problem is that people don't really care about olympic glory in categories other than the popular spectator sports like track, swimming, and gymnastics. The kids genetically gifted enough to be good generally get groomed for the NFL. CJ Cummings would definitely be in football right now if he didn't do weightlifting. Commisar keeps getting pressured to do football instead (or at least he was). The genetic potential of the US is IMO locked up in team sports where the money is

but half the russians were disqualified

weak b8