Topic: Classic Norb Schemansky, How it is

[Rachel Crass]

I was talking to some IWF Officials this afternoon and was told the following anecdote of Norb Schemansky and Mark Henry in the bar following Mark's not-so-stellar performance in the '96 Games in Atlanta.

Mark is awestruck by Norb across the room and asks to be introduced to him. Upon their introduction, Norb looks up from the pint of beer resting on his slight paunch and says, straight-faced, "Well, I guess you f*cked up this time, eh?"

Mark replies with, "Well, yes sir, I suppose I did."

Spades are spades, and Mark took it on the chin.

Anyway, I got a good chuckle out of this and thought I would share.

Rachel

[oldgit]

what has happened to usa lifting?! kono,davis,dube,schemansky,stanko,lets include hepburn(north american after all!)-then-nothing!! why?!

[Shaun Le Conte]

At Sportivny Press in the "Misinformation Engineering" section, there is a 6 part series of articles called "There is No System" about this issue and others.

There's a variety of factors at work such as the rebuilding of Europe, the growth of the professional sports industry and incomes of players, the splitting of the Soviet Union into numerous countries that can sometimes field good teams, and the question of whether foreign nations test their athletes as regularly as we do in North America