Hangarian Weightlifter Dislocates Elbow

[Guest Verbal Kint]

Not for the squeemish I guess, as my wife hates this stuff and almost vomited when I showed her (which is basically why I showed her).

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This is the moment Hungarian weightlifter Janos Baranyai's first Olympics ended in agony when he dislocated his right elbow in the ugliest moment yet of the Olympic weightlifting competition.

Baranyai was trying to snatch 148kg in his third lift in the men's 77kg division, when his elbow popped out of its socket.

No longer able to support the weight of the barbell, his right forearm bent backward. The 24-year-old Hungarian fell to the floor in shock, shaking and crying out in pain.

Hungary's coaching staff and competition officials rushed to Baranyai's aid as he lay trembling on the floor, his arm limp and twisted out of position.

Baranyai was carried off the platform on a stretcher and taken by ambulance to a local hospital for evaluation and treatment, said Benny Johansson, a technical controller at the event.

It was not immediately clear how serious the injury was.

'It looked really awful,' Johansson said. 'If the ligaments are damaged then it could take several months to heal."

He said elbow and knee injuries are the most common injuries in the sport, 'but the number of injuries are quite small in comparison with the number of athletes. You cannot even compare it with football for example.'

A former judo wrestler from Oroszlany, Hungary, Baranyai was competing with the so-called B-group of lifters in the 77kg division.

Hungary's lone lifter in the Olympics, he was ninth in both the snatch and clean and jerk in the European Championship earlier this year and placed 33rd in last year's world championship.

He cleared his first snatch attempts at 140kg and 145kg before loading up the bar at 148kg - a relatively modest weight in top-level competition. The world record in the snatch is 173kg.

In the snatch, the bar is pulled overhead in one continuous motion as the lifter settles into a squat, then rises with arms extended.

Baranyai was in the squat position when his elbow popped.

Edited August 14, 2008 by Verbal Kint

[Guest superslacker]

I saw the video on Drudge report. It made me a little queezy. I'm thinking his shoulder's going to be sore after that thing fell on it, too. He just laid there and shook on the ground afterwards. I probably would have pooped a little after something that traumatic.

[Reservoir Dog]

Yeah, I saw the video of that earlier. Ouch!!

[strickj]

as my wife hates this stuff and almost vomited when I showed her (which is basically why I showed her).

Any pictures of that?

[Guest db99wj]

Any pictures of that?

Ewww.

HOly elbow pointing the wrong direction!

[et45]

I love the Daily Mail.

[Guest jackdog]

man I feel for that guy

[Guest AeroEngrSoftDevMBA]

Any pictures of that?

If you want a similar effect go to YouTube and search for "2 girls 1 cup reactions." I implore you - DO NOT WATCH "2 girls 1 cup". You will be scarred for life. You want to watch one or two of the hundreds of reaction videos where people have been filmed watching the original.

[Guest Linoge]

Mama. Not really sure which would hurt worse in my book - the elbow going the wrong direction, or the 140-pound bar falling on my shoulders/back.

Either way - gorram, that looks horrifically painful.

[Guest EasilyObsessed]

Mama. Not really sure which would hurt worse in my book - the elbow going the wrong direction, or the 140-pound bar falling on my shoulders/back.

Either way - gorram, that looks horrifically painful.

More like 326 pounds. He was lifting 148kg.

[Guest db99wj]

Any pictures of that?

If you want a similar effect go to YouTube and search for "2 girls 1 cup reactions." I implore you - DO NOT WATCH "2 girls 1 cup". You will be scarred for life. You want to watch one or two of the hundreds of reaction videos where people have been filmed watching the original.

You haven't met Strick have ya?

I haven't met him personally, just internet.

[Guest Linoge]

More like 326 pounds. He was lifting 148kg.

In that case, that wins.

Also, I am deaf.