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Simon's a good guy, but the fact is he is too tall at 5.10" to be a successfull 82.5kg lifter.
It's hard to find the heights of the russians, but check the stats of 82.5kg lifters here: Athlete Bio
Most of the top 82.5kg lifters are 5.7 or below. The tallest in the top 10 I could find is 5ft8
yeah- I'm 5'10 and when I went to the 2007 IPF worlds I was the tallest guy in the 110 class.
Australia isn't up with the top lifters on the world stage yet.
For my weight class, I'm about 80kg behind the top squat, 45kg behind the top bench and 90kg behind the top deadlift- over a 100kg behind the top total. Thats world records. It just means I am way behind in best of the best in each lift. But as far as winning medals is concerned I'm more like 30kg off the money in squat- right in contention for bench and 40-50kg off the money for deadlift- for total over a 100kg. I know top IPF guys who are right up there drug free. A friend won the 2007 IPF open worlds and he is drug free.
The way I see it, the differences between me and the Russians are:
age- i'm 20, juniors is up to 23
experience- I haven't been training long enough yet, got till 2013 though
height- as Paul said they are alot shorter , a guy my height would simply be forced to gain weight over there. I on the otherhand will compete in whatever class I want.
drugs- Nuff said
equipment carryover- might explain why our deadlift numbers are closer than squat and bench
genetics- I may not be as gifted as the world champ, who knows!
I know there is a difference between drug-free and drug-tested, but- as I said I know there are guys at the top level in the IPF who are drug free. There are definitely cheats- they sometimes get caught- and some countries seem more suspect than others- but I also know that there are guys winning the worlds who are clean.
there was getting to be a bit too much agreement on this forum, it's more interesting when we bait each other a bit. Hey PTC are you going to be at PA nationals? Be good to meet you in person.