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Weightlifting 101: How Olivia Reeves plans to win an Olympic gold in Paris
https://www.npr.org/2024/08/06/nx-s1-5060258/paris-olympics-weightlifting-olivia-reeves-usa(The excerpt doesn't do the piece justice. Many photos, animations at link)
Weightlifting 101: How Olivia Reeves plans to win an Olympic gold in Paris
AUGUST 6, 20245:00 AM ET
By Vincent Acovino, Juana Summers, Christopher Intagliat
[...]
Expectations are high that a member of the U.S. women’s weightlifting team could win gold at the Summer Olympics. And among the team’s most promising athletes is Reeves — a 21-year-old college student who is already breaking U.S. weightlifting records.
“It's incredibly exciting because she is having all this success and she's having it at such a young age,” says Cara Heads-Slaughter, who was a member of the U.S. women’s weightlifting team in 2000.
“She's on track to be the best U.S. weightlifter in women's history.”
[...]
Reeves says staying “tall” means keeping her chest upright during the lift and being sure her back doesn’t round.
It’s the hip extensors that “must produce the highest power demands” during the lift, says biomechanist Klaus Bartonietz.
Source: Photos and videos by Melissa Golden for NPR
Credit: Connie Hanzhang Jin and Vincent Acovino/NPR
[...]
AUGUST 6, 20245:00 AM ET
By Vincent Acovino, Juana Summers, Christopher Intagliat
[...]
Expectations are high that a member of the U.S. women’s weightlifting team could win gold at the Summer Olympics. And among the team’s most promising athletes is Reeves — a 21-year-old college student who is already breaking U.S. weightlifting records.
“It's incredibly exciting because she is having all this success and she's having it at such a young age,” says Cara Heads-Slaughter, who was a member of the U.S. women’s weightlifting team in 2000.
“She's on track to be the best U.S. weightlifter in women's history.”
[...]
Reeves says staying “tall” means keeping her chest upright during the lift and being sure her back doesn’t round.
It’s the hip extensors that “must produce the highest power demands” during the lift, says biomechanist Klaus Bartonietz.
Source: Photos and videos by Melissa Golden for NPR
Credit: Connie Hanzhang Jin and Vincent Acovino/NPR
[...]