One man’s quest to immerse himself in the Olympic spirit. Today’s sport: Weightlifting
Some sports have athletes, weightlifting has superheroes. I’m not kidding, the sheer amount of weight these men can lift is beyond my capacity for understanding. It’s much easier to imagine that they have been transported from a comic book and are using their super powers in the most frivolous way possible.
And I’m not the first to have this idea. Twitter to the rescue…
Eat your heart out, Brie Larson.
I will admit that it’s more impressive in the smaller weight classes, as we have the contrast of a normal sized person lifting an obscene amount of weight.