Chris Ⓐ LeRoux:
I see some asshats in usa weightlifting are claiming if a kid in one of my weight classes eventually breaks one or more of my jr and sr American records that I will "have to shut up" about how they robbed me of what I earned. This of course makes no sense as the reason they stole my records was because they asserted no one could possibly lift those numbers clean, despite the fact I passed every test they ever gave me. Obviously if their "theory" was true it would mean the kid is using in order to break my numbers and thus will not shut me up, nevermind robbing me of my records for a decade while they remained unbroken was wrong regardless of whether he or someone else actually breaks them someday. Besides, no one can ever shut me up.
Shaun Le Conte:
Is anyone really even that close? I mean really close.
We know that the distance between say 145 and 152 is 7 mathematically, but that a much bigger jump in terms of standard deviations than 138 to 145 was.
It is so messed up of the USAW to have done with their records what they did over the past 23 years. They may as well say that records of the past don't matter, only the present
Cheers to Canadian Weightlifting for never doing a complete reset of the records after the initial reset in 1990.