ksksk wrote:
Nobody cares about the clean or snatch? You know they're Olympic sports, right? If you're going to dismiss his clean and snatch, then you should also dismiss his running. Fronting is a combination athlete. He is not supposed to be stellar in any one event. Just like how top decathletes usually aren't stellar in any on event. Highschool girls could demolish decathletes in running also.
Apparently, you're too stupid to read, so I'll spell it out for you.
Weightlifting is a great sport, but those lifts are highly technical. It would be like judging somebody's sprinting and jumping ability based on the pole vault. Justin and other idiots rattle off Froning's clean and snatch and disregard his deadlift/squat/bench because his other lifts are quite average. He spends lots of time working on clean/snatch technique in the full lift variations, which nobody does in sports, because it is useful for crossfit. Ergo, using those lifts and comparing them to people that don't do them is retarded. Compare squat/bench/dl, more basic lifts that test strength and he becomes quite average again (5'9", 200lbs, barely benching over 300lbs is pathetic).
High school girls cannot demolish decas in running, what on earth are you talking about. There isn't a decent decathlete out there that isn't running at least an 11.0 100m, 50.0 400m, and topping it off with a 1500m under 5 (after 9 other events). Sure, the 1500m isn't amazing, but it is a far cry from an >20min 5k and >60sec 400m. Completely different. And that is just decent decathletes that might make the trials B-standard if they are lucky, not the ones claiming to be the best in the world.