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Weightlifting competitions on television in between Olympics are usually pretty uninteresting for the vast majority of us — unless something gruesome happens — but they’re still filmed and broadcast and narrated by commentators who take them very, very seriously.
“I’m tingling right now,” one of them says.
“You’re about to watch Babe Ruth in 1927, Michael Jordan in 1991,” the other adds without a shred irony.
And though we love to make fun of these dudes for their hyperbolic comparison of the greatest moments in sports history to a raw squat, what transpired immediately after was nothing short of incredible.