Lifting at a World cup in Halmstad Sweden. I have just started to play with converting a lot of old VHS video from the early 1980’s.

I have some video of Yuri in the training hall at 2003 worlds doing snatches. He just drilled and drilled, I’ll have to re look but I think it was maybe 120-130kg.It seemed to me he slowed the snatch motion down a tad on purpose. The whole time his scowling coach watched and gave him shit…or so it seemed. Go figure. Yuri took it all in stride remaining very cool and meticulous in his approach. In the CJ at the competition he opened with 200kg and didn’t take a 2 or 3rd attempt