Just here to say that Solfrid is an amazing athlete with a very powerful personal story. This girl is a fighter in so many ways! Love to see her succeed.
@@userer4579 to each his own, amigo. as someone who constantly disagrees when society tells us to think someone is attractive (megan fox, anjelena joile, jenifer anniston, lizzo, etc.), i know it's pointless to argue. and i can see how someone would disagree about solfrid. more muscular upper-body than i'd like. but overall, very cute woman. and what a figure.
Since I started watching and subscribed to this channel during the Covid yrs I’ve become a massive weightlifting fan. I may even join a club and compete in a masters competition.
@@007rosin this was 2 weeks ago. most weightlifters lay somewhere between 500g to 1 kilo above their competition weight just a week or days before competition. so in 8 weeks she would have to lose 2 kilos, and then do a bit of a water cut. i think that's manageable.
@@jahuti5065 That's kind of what I was basing it off and presuming she's natural or relatively natural because of. There was actually this girl in my highschool that seemed to have a similar strength deviation. It's not even a testosterone/masculinity thing, it seems like. Like it's even more of a strength tendency than men with much higher testosterone. Has nothing to do with height or weight or race or whatever either, just a glitch in the matrix. Ex. Jen Thompson.
Gonna keep commenting this because I don't want this sport to die: Kick out the press out. To hell with juries and judges, nobody cares about a 2mm arm flicker for Christ's sake.
Completely agree. I don't mind them being fussy about the snatch as it's sort of the whole point of the lift to do it in one go, but the C&J is all about how much you can get over your head and in truth a "press out" only makes the job harder so how the hell does it invalidate the lift? If you look at many of the great lifts of the past, most would not be allowed with modern judging.
today in 81 category in asian championship denied all you said about strongest non-super heavy weight, with 6 kilos less she lifted 1 kilo more than this liftter
@@ЛеопардЯгуарович-в9э Solfrid Koanda (NOR) 87 kilos, snatch 117, clean and jerk 155 to 272 total. Liang Xiaomei (CHN) 81 kilos, snatch 120 and clean and jerk 155 to 275 total
@@haroldpepete okay, but solfrid doesnt weigh 87kilos. She weighed in at 83.9 and is working her weight down. And the commentary was saying that it would be great to see her against the chinese athletes because they are pretty on par, or likely will be, and it will be a great competition between them.
Ill bite. Koanda lives in Norway. Since the 80s there hasnt been any sport in Norway with more than the occasional positive drug test(usually at lower levels, or maybe a silly cross country skier used the wrong lip balm) Drug use is generally really looked down on in Norwegian society, and the use of anabolic steroids has been criminalized for the last 10 years. The Norwegian IWF affiliate receives little funding, and the athletes are not full time lifters. Its quite the different scenario versus many of the notorious drug using weightlifting powerhouses. Even as a hobbyist powerlifter I have had our Wada affiliated nado come to my house to drug test me several times. They are not messing around. But hey, you can go for the lazy, old "they are all on"..
@@ev1bl Koanda is at the top of the world in terms of lifts after only 4 years of training. This is, fighting against countries like China who are known to have intensive PED campaigns even with children as young as 11 years old. Maybe Norwegian athletes in general are clean, but there is no chance in hell that Koanda is not abusing PEDs. That of course does not make her achievements any less impressive: all of her competition are using the same stuff she is. It is just a reality that her numbers are not achievable naturally. But man, she is a beast.
@@xenoduck3189 for example cross country skiing there has been positive doping tests (Terese Jouhaug). So Norway for sure has some kind of system behind them and capabilities of doing it.
@@aleksihirvonen4967 Well, like I said. There are occasional pops for skiers being stupid and clueless. But thats hardly indicative of a system. If there was a system. Why would they choose a grown woman, working as an electrician, as their candidate for the sport of weightlifting?
The eligibility of a competitor in terms of nationality is determined by whether they are legally a citizen of a certain country. You cannot, for instance, compete for France simply because you wear a beret, a striped (navy and white) shirt and carry a baguette under your arm. You have to actually be a citizen of France and if you are, then you can compete for France, regardless of your appearance. In fact, if you look at the UK team, you dan't see any fat, sunburned lager-louts singing "here we go, here we go", nor does the Italian team consist of short, hairy men who wave their arms about and sell ice cream. This is because they qualify through being citizens of their country rather than looking like some perceived archetype.
Are you saying that just because she is bigger & stronger than you? And would you say that to her face? Because if you wouldn't, then you shouldn't act like a silly bitch and say it online.
She’s been muscular since she was a young child and i think she started strength training when she was 15, then did crossfit, before she moved to weightlifting in 2019/2020.
