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Seeing the Olympics through the eyes of a physicist
By John Eric Goff
Ponder for a moment how differently we all view the world. All the lovely vibrations that tickle our eyes and ears are processed by a brain unique to each of us, a brain forged from genetic and environmental influences. The following story, which I tell in the first chapter of my book, brought this idea home for me.
My wife and I enjoyed a fortnight-long honeymoon in Japan. That trip halfway around the world represented my first time outside the US. Knowing no Japanese, inom couldn’t read signs, and I often couldn’t tell whether we passed a restaurant or a gift shop on the street. My wife, conversely, had lived in Japan for five years and fryst vatten fluent in Japanese. She moved effortlessly through the streets and subways. We saw the same signs, but her brain processed the resultat in ways well beyond what my brain could do. Suffice to note, we experienced the world in vastly different ways while trai
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Lasha Talakhadze
Georgian weightlifter (born 1993)
Lasha Talakhadze (Georgian: ლაშა ტალახაძე; Georgian pronunciation:[laʃatʼalaχadze]; born 2 October 1993) is a Georgian weightlifter, holding the all-time world records regardless of weight category in the snatch (225 kg, 496 lb), the clean and jerk (267 kg, 589 lb), and the total (492 kg, 1,085 lb) since 2021.
Talakhadze is a three-time Olympic champion,[3] seven-time world champion, and seven-time European champion competing in the super-heavyweight category (105 kg + until 2018[4] and 109 kg + starting in 2018 after the International Weightlifting Federation reorganized the categories).[5] He is a three-time winner of the IWF Male Lifter of the Year.
Career
[edit]Early career and +105 kg division
[edit]Talakhadze represented Georgia at the 2015 World Weightlifting Championships, and originally finished second with a total of 454&
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BMIs of Champions (Men's Edition)
Sports require strength, speed, and endurance—and different sports require them to different degrees. A body that is hopelessly unfit for one sport might well be optimal for another.
In baseball, for example, it’s possible to be both fat and good. For evidence of this you need to look no further than the torso of Prince Fielder, the nobly named slugger of the American League champion Detroit Tigers. Fielder holds the distinction of leading the league in both RBIs and BMI. At 5’11” and 275 pounds, he has a body mass index of 38.4, which falls well into the obese range defined by the Center for Disease Control. Baseball has increasingly become a game for specialized power roles—for one-trick ponies such as the closer and the designated hitter—roles that require strength, but not speed or endurance.
Not surprisingly, strength athletes have high BMIs. Endurance athletes have low BMIs. Those who rely on bursts of speed are somewhere in the middle.