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[–]FlippyKing 11 insightful - 3 fun11 insightful - 2 fun12 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

The son of a billionaire who has no need for any of the fame or the glory would just as easily throw a game as they would womanhood claim. (pardon my attempt at making a rhyme)

I don't know too much about what L. Man Hubbard did, but Hubbard did compete as a man, so there is no possibility of suddenly forgetting good form or any of that. I don't think the athlete sets the weight they lift or if they are allowed to change the weight on subsequent attempts, but if they do set their own weight on their initial lifts then it is possible to pick a weight too high for a first lift as there are a lot of factors-- all of which Hubby (ha, a shortened form of the word husband as in man) is well aware of and experienced enough to avoid. Comparing what the hubbster has lifted in the past and what will be lifted in any future competitions will also give a hint towards any chicanery going on.

I know one tiny thing, which may not apply to the olympics or to every weight or power lifting event. In listening to Mark Rippetoe talk about trans and about male and female athletes, he mentioned his own experience training a woman weight lifter or power lifter. Their are formulas (or a formula) for how mush weight to increase from lift to lift, and based on how a lifter's first lift goes, the coach and athlete figure what to attempt going forward. He had no experience coaching women before this. His recommendation for her lead to failure because she could not make the lifts she attempted after the first one. He since learned that women can lift for more reps a weight very close to the maximum amount they can lift for one rep than men. Or, put another way, a woman's max for one rep is much close in weight to what they can do for 2 reps or 3 than a man. He saw the woman he was working with lift a weight, she expressed how she felt she could have got a few more reps out of it or something, and he gave her a weight to attempt on the second lift based on his work with men. The increase was too much. He since has altered the way he trains women and has found better success.

I've mentioned his youtube videos/podcasts about the trans athletes issue a couple of times, but with the Olympics going on now, it's worth mentioning again-- though I don't have the links handy. Any search will come up with them easily, "Rippetoe Trans atheletes" or Rippetoe Male Female differnces" should get the two videos pretty easily.