Olivia Reeves Demolishes the Snatch | Last-Chance Olympic Qualifer 

She is incredible

Nah. Hampton Morris. And I hope you don’t mean “beauty” in the way that she looks. She looks like a bridge troll. Her technique is a thing of beauty

Good grief she’s incredible

That would make a great film. Skunk Works develops some kind of technology that manipulates gravity. They use it to cheat in sports. @1:30 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-gMAMhGuhXDw.html Come to think of it that would fuel too many conspiracy theories. None of the media companies would make a film like that.

That would make a great film. The plot would be Skunkworks invented technology to manipulate gravity and used it during competitions. at 1:30 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-gMAMhGuhXDw.html Come to think of it that's too unrealistic.

she ALSO went to Namek

WR is gonna be a wrap with no wrist wraps

@@sprint-shortsher ability is unreal

forreal. Once she's under it, it looks like she's just standing up. It's wild

Una vez que acomoda el peso lo sube fácil por que tiene mucha fuerza en la pierna y en el core

She is no doubt favorite by wide margin for gold now. Neither silver nor bronze in this comp will compete in Paris.

Medalling? Try _Gold_ Medalling. Palacios is the only one with a shot of beating her in the snatch (with a _perfect_ day on her part, and likely also requiring Reeves to miss). And no one who will be in the field is in the same league as Reeves in the clean-and-jerk. I'm just praying for good health for her between now and Paris. Nothing else will stop her.

She had the world record snatch in her today, and another 5kg+ in the clean-and-jerk. And she'll likely be better in Paris. Her _trajectory_ would have been enough for the Chinese to not send Liao Guifang, even _if_ she'd made her lifts to win today. Now? There is no version of reality in which the Chinese will send Liao. Also, this qualification process, and the corresponding athlete-pool restrictions are an absolute travesty. This World Cup will end up being _TEN_ times the competition that the Olympics will be, and that's just wrong.

Have to agree - this World Cup is, for weightlifting, the competition the Olympics should have been. That Liao won't get to go to Paris, for one example among many, is a crying shame. With only 3 athletes China certainly won't send her now, which robs us all of the rematch. I like the top 10 qualifiers process. I do not like the 3 athlete cap, or the one per country cap. Only one of Rahmat and Rizki? Why ruin this for all of us?!? Olivia certainly looked like she had a 121/152 in there today. That said, her caution and execution kept all the pressure on her opponents. (I doubt she'll be opening at 112 again for a while though 😂)

Between her and Hampton, USA is looking good finally

USA are back baby

In the _snatch._ Imagine how much more she might have had in the tank in the C&J?!? She made her second _and_ third lifts with mis-timed cleans. Nuts.

No way is she a favorite for gold. If she could win any medal, that would be acceptable. Let's not go crazy here.

​​@@jeffw1267Are you on crack? She just crushed the strongest field of the quad here, and North Korea and China won't even be in the Olympics now. Who, exactly, is going to beat her at the Olympics? Seb and Max both said during the session that Reeves is likely to win both the snatch and C&J in Paris _on her opening lifts!!!_ Leaving Seb aside, do you think you know weightlifting better than _Max?!?_ I think Palacios can make Reeves need to make a second snatch for the win in Paris... Other than that, no one in the field will be able to trouble her even that much.

@jeffw1267 North Korea are ineligible for Olympic qualification. China have the number one ranked lifter in all five Olympic categories, but they can only send three women, and the other four Chinese women are more dominant in their respective categories, so China will almost certainly not send Liao Guifang. Olivia totalled 268 here, the next biggest total from 2024 is 246. Of the remaining eligible lifters only Angie Palacios and Loredana Toma have surpassed 250 this cycle, Toma did it with 256 in 2022 and has been steadily downhill ever since. Angie is Olivia's biggest threat, she did 261 a year ago and has mostly been around 245-250 since then, possibly saving energy. Regardless, Olivia has consistently been on an upward trend. Anything can happen, but my money is firmly on the American.

Astonishing ability of reeves

_Definitely_ the best lifter in the US program - men's or women's team - when you factor in the combination of strength and technique across both lifts.

😂😂 well said

It's you 😂 Her proportions make her look taller than she is. She's actually shorter than Liao Guifang when you see them standing in a lineup. And she's _way_ shorter than Toma.

@@alistairwillock7266 Damn okay lol. I thought she looked much larger lol

@@popcorn32145 If it makes you feel any better I thought the same thing. I just looked it up, she's 5'9. But yeah her proportions made me think she was like 6'1 😅

@@e2rqey What 😂 At 5'9 she'd be in the 81s (Or she'd be wayyy skinnier). If you have access to the full session, you can see her standing next to Giulia Miserendino who's listed as 170 cm (5'7) and she looks significantly shorter. She's 5'5 at the most.

@@Damzified It was a different Olivia Reeves 😅

It seems like some combination of an issue with her right arm, and confidence. Also, she may just have passed her peak. Toma is another example of someone who couldn't come with 20 kilos of her best performances from a couple of years ago.

My man has been saying "this is the most anticipated session of the tournament" every session since the M61 lmao I think he only refrained during the W64, but you could tell he had to fight back the urge 🤣

She's an international level weightlifter, what do you think?

Pressing X to doubt ;)

If Mike O’Tre- I mean Mike O’Hearn is natty, anything is possible! She’s definitely natty and probably hasn’t even taken whey or creatine before 😀

Look at her face. She's supposed to be 20 y-o.

Yeah bro

There was a Chinese spy that could push his own ding dong inwards to pass as a woman, I highly doubt any of that happened here.

If you're selecting from _any_ female population for strength/explosive power, then you're by definition selecting for women with naturally high testosterone, and advantageous leverages for strength... And then you're going to, ahem, _supplement_ on top of their natural advantages. So yeah, the total pool of women's strength athletes is going to tend to look less than traditionally feminine. It's not rocket science.

Good old androgenic tren 💪