Olympic Weightlifter Tries To Lift 429 Pounds
But Ends Up Breaking His Arm
Sports
The intense excitement is turned upside down in the 2016 Rio Summer Olympics. With 42 Olympic sports
disciplines in one place: 306 events over the course of 19 days will yield 136 medals for women, 161 for men and
nine mixed medals. The events are quite thrilling except the people getting hurt.
A recent incident that happened with Armenian weightlifter Andranik Karapetyan will make your meal come
back up in a hurry. It possibly put an end to his career. With the bikers crashing, gymnasts with broken legs and weightlifters snapping
their arms, the 2016 Rio Summer Olympics has been full of injuries.
Armenian weightlifter, Andranik Karapetyan was performing a lift.
He was lifting 429 lbs (195kg) but it proved to be too much.
He hyper-extended his elbow during a lift that undoubtedly ended his run at Rio's
Olympic games and probably ended his career.
It's really horrifying.
The pain he might have felt is beyond one's imagination.
This Horrified his coach, who covered his eyes, while an official helped him off the
floor.