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Re: Top 5 USA all time?

Posted By: Michael Caravalho (152.79.109.104)
Date: Monday, December 11, 2006, @ 1:59 p.m.

In Response To: Re: Top 5 USA all time? (Regis Becker)

Good list.

Another person I would like to see on that list is PETE GEORGE (75kg middleweight). He won the SILVER medal in 1948 OLYMPICS and A GOLD medal in 1952, in addition to some WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP titles, so I feel he belongs in list, too.

It is interesting that Chuck Vinci(56kg) won a GOLD MEDAL in every OLYMPICS he lifted in, 1956 and 1960. He never lost an OLYMPIC TITLE !!! In fact, his lifts back then would still place him in top three of 56kg nowadays at our SR NATS, nowadays probably for every year since. How is that for being ahead of his time and/or more correctly, progress of USA 56kg lifters has been stalled for past 46 years !!!

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• Top 5 USA all time?
  Don Weideman (74-37-85-68.dsl1.ekgv.ca.frontiernet.net) -- Monday, December 11, 2006, @ 10:25 a.m.
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    Regis Becker (141.189.251.1) -- Monday, December 11, 2006, @ 1:08 p.m.
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      Tracy Fober (209-145-160-58.accessus.net) -- Monday, December 11, 2006, @ 1:58 p.m.
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        Regis Becker (141.189.251.1) -- Monday, December 11, 2006, @ 2:40 p.m.
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        paul doherty (71-9-141-92.dhcp.mdfd.or.charter.com) -- Monday, December 11, 2006, @ 10:32 p.m.
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      Michael Caravalho (152.79.109.104) -- Monday, December 11, 2006, @ 1:59 p.m.
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        kevin doherty (star.sfusd.edu) -- Monday, December 11, 2006, @ 2:32 p.m.
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    Dresdin Archibald (S010600112fe26e33.ed.shawcable.net) -- Monday, December 11, 2006, @ 4:32 p.m.
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    George Bangert (c-71-207-60-30.hsd1.pa.comcast.net) -- Monday, December 11, 2006, @ 8:24 p.m.
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    sam maxwell (c-24-18-173-198.hsd1.wa.comcast.net) -- Monday, December 11, 2006, @ 10:12 p.m.
    • To quote Steve Zeigman *PIC*
      Don Weideman (74-37-85-68.dsl1.ekgv.ca.frontiernet.net) -- Monday, December 11, 2006, @ 11:26 p.m.
      • The 1980's records were repudiated. *NM*
        Don Weideman (74-37-85-68.dsl1.ekgv.ca.frontiernet.net) -- Monday, December 11, 2006, @ 11:39 p.m.
      • Simple.
        Jim Storch (cpe-74-67-92-193.stny.res.rr.com) -- Tuesday, December 12, 2006, @ 6:38 a.m.
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      Butch Curry (c-69-181-57-150.hsd1.ca.comcast.net) -- Tuesday, December 12, 2006, @ 4:09 a.m.
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        Rich berkheimer (h-66-167-42-69.phndaz91.dynamic.covad.net) -- Tuesday, December 12, 2006, @ 4:22 a.m.
    • Comparing across "eras."
      Jim Storch (cpe-74-67-92-193.stny.res.rr.com) -- Tuesday, December 12, 2006, @ 6:54 a.m.
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      steve gough (216-129-238-217.vnet-inc.com) -- Tuesday, December 12, 2006, @ 8:53 a.m.
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      Steven Zeigman (249-197.127-70.tampabay.res.rr.com) -- Tuesday, December 12, 2006, @ 11:25 a.m.
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      Big Bob Madow (ool-44c15f15.dyn.optonline.net) -- Tuesday, December 12, 2006, @ 12:29 p.m.
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      Mark Cannella (cpe-65-24-219-109.insight.res.rr.com) -- Tuesday, December 12, 2006, @ 7:50 p.m.
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    Pierre Suter (chaegress.unumprovident.com) -- Tuesday, December 12, 2006, @ 9:29 a.m.