Duisburg, Germany
July 17, 2005
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Duisburg, Germany July 17, 2005 |
What an awesome experience! I am not talking about the lifting, but rather the whole show, especially the Opening Ceremonies! I was a goose-bump, hair raising experience to walk into a stadium with nearly 30,000 spectators cheering you on. The only thing I can relate it to, was imagining what it would be like to be part of the half time show of the Super Bowl, but scaled down to 30,000. While the rest of the teams and countries were lined up out side of the arena waiting to march in, Larry, Wade and I snuck up into the stadium to watch part of the production before the athletes were introduced. Most of the pictures from this venture are from the opening ceremonies and our 2 days after that we spent in Dusseldorf site seeing.
Meet:
The meet was awesome as well. The setup was superb, the scores projected on the big screen, a headshot of the lifter came up on another screen when it was time for their lift, Gaston Parage as always, did his awesome announcing. Between the kick ass music blaring and Gaston and Rudy getting the crowd into the lifters next attempt, the hall was roaring.
I did not have my best day on the platform again, this time seemed to be a hard judging panel on my opening squats. Missed my first on depth, went back, rearranged my suit, then had a weird hitch in my decent on my 2nd attempt, finally sank it way down on my 3rd and was good to go, but only getting my opener of 490. Bench again, I had a hard time with technical calls, getting my 2nd turned down for uneven extension, and nearly my 3rd as well as one of the side judges was determined that I wasn't getting that bench, which I did at an easy 314, but far off from what I was aiming for. Deads, supposed to be my lift, but falling flat in them this year. Opened with an easy 501, then got too far out over my toes on my 2nd, followed by a hamstring cramp and missed it. Totally out of steam on my 3rd, which would have been for the gold medal, but didn't break the floor.
So I ended the day with a Silver medal. Although who wouldn't want gold, I look at the statistics for the entire World Games, there were only 23 medals won by the United States for all the participating sports, I was ONE of them. :)
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Thanks:
I would like to thank those who helped sponsor my way to the World Games. Marcus Lawson - Global Data Recovery, Paul Hughes - GNC Spokane, Pete - Titan Support Systems, Employees of NW Farm Credit Services and Jason. Thank you also to Larry, the best coach around as well as the rest of the coaching staff for the World Games.
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