Sports Don’t Watch This
posted by on August 13 at 13:33 PM
By popular demand, the video of Hungarian weightlifter Janos Baranyai’s performance in Beijing.
Here it is, but don’t watch it. Someone (several people) sent it to me and made me watch it (literally), and encouraged me to post it, but I don’t recommend looking at it, not at all. I’m warning you. It’s gross.
The announcers are really pretty pissed that they were forced to watch it too—again and again, in slow motion.
risk v. reward in action.
For those of us whose office blocks Youtube . . . a little hint?
I love the medical shields
The shields...that's a new thing isn't it?
@2 Let's just say that the guy won't be lifting anything with his right arm for a very, very long time. Picture Joe Theismann, but an arm not a leg.
a really, really nasty way to break your arm...
this olympic moment doesn't even compare to:
He remembers a loud popping, splattering noise then a fierce stabbing
pain and then not being able to move from the squat position.
He remained in this position for about half an hour, since trying to
stand caused him overwhelming agonising pain.
Para-medics arrived and applied anaethesia on the spot and carried him
to an ambulance.
He was rushed to surgery, where surgeons described the trauma as an
"explosive and aggravated prolapse of the bowel".
http://msgboard.snopes.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=109;t=000221;p=1
it's totally safe for work, just a very weird arm angle and very obvious twitching from the pain right before the Chinese-swiss pike formation envelops him.
#2, looks like he dislocates all kinds of shit in his right arm, drops the weight, which then lands on his hunched back. Pained scream and twitching commences.
the shields... oh my...
(also: trying to post this on my blog, can't find the video on liveleak? help)
Sometimes the pains yells out of you before you know what hurts.
the shields are the most hilarious part as if they know some bad shit is gonna go down.
not all glam
pain and sorrow and hard work, on with the saga
the shield is very nifty concept, keep it
Ah, China- you'll censor anything, won't you!
It would have made for effective marketing to sell ad space on the Med Shields... Aspirin anyone?
Well his career as a weight lifter is over now he can go over to Fratmen and make a few videos. He only needs one functioning elbow.
Thank you, SLOG, for having more taste than Drudge who just posted a still from the video with no warning. Thank you for being more taste than Drudge in general, too.
You could always find and post the video of the kayaker from Togo winning the Bronze (and his country's first medal ever) in the kayak slalom...
Do the stick-person figures on those shields strike anyone else as inappropriately ... gay?
I was an athletic trainer at a prestigious east coast college. I saw these things surprisingly often. If you know what you're doing you can pop that sucka right back in.
In the voice of Officer Barbrady "Nothing to see here. Move along."
The people with the shields were faster than the medics.
Gross and disturbing, yes...
But it's got nothing on the horrible arm-wrestling footage of arms breaking...
From what I could tell from the news articles I read (with images disabled, thankyouverymuch), they did pop it right back in. It didn't sound like a career-ender, by any means, but it could put him out for a good year. Full disclosure: I know nothing about weightlifting beyond that it involves the lifting of weights.
I showed this to the weighlifter who sits behind me at work and it made him cry like a baby...
Uh... that guy? With the messed up arm? He's HOT. Until he messes up his arm. Then he's not.
I guess this is a situation where life imitates art (except without the drugs and stuff):
http://www.hulu.com/watch/4090/saturday-night-live-weekend-update-all-drug-olympics
Wow.
Not the popped arm. The human shield that materialized within seconds. Holy shit!
Think about it. It makes me suspect that this kind of thing must happen pretty often if they felt it necessary to have such a crew in place, trained to dash out and deploy the screen so fast. I mean, those guys were better than synchronized diving.
Maybe humans aren't designed to lift that kind of shit...
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Popped it right back in? It took 4 hours, good drugs, and putting a heavy weight on my arm to pop my shoulder back in when I dislocated it. Worst pain in my life.
@18, RonK, here is where that little "stick figure" on the shields comes from:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lnv3KiKbcJ0
@14 for the win.
Still things have evolved. Does anyone remember
"the agony of defeat"?
Jesus, you'd that shit would be up there.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKEDD1i4oGk&feature=related
I dislocated a shoulder whilst skiing. Due to natural shock reaction the first 30-40 minutes were painless, in fact I skied down to the base without poles. As time passed about 1.5 hours - the pain grew worse and worse.
If the Olympic medics knew their stuff, they could have easily popped the lifter's shoulder back in place (it's called reducing the dislocation). He would need a couple of months to recover but he could certainly lift again assuming that that there was no associated joint/ligament damage.
#32 - On further viewing it looks like he dislocated his right elbow which would be more painful than a shoulder dislocation.
In case @7 you couldn't link to the retina-searing photograph, try Rotten.com - and go to Weightlifter Injury. Rotten.com is not for the constitutionally weak but it's a great site to prove that when bad things happen, someone's usually standing by with their little Brownie Hawkeye to record for posterity things You Just Don't Want To See.
@7,34 That's not a real photo. Check snopes.com
As far as whether his career as a weighlifter is over or not, my guess is it most likely is. While some athletes come back from serious joint injuries (ACL/MCL, Tommy John elbow surgeries), very very few ever reach the point they were at pre-injury. For a powerlifter, it seems like it would be awful risky to try and lift that much over your head on that elbow again. I sprained/hyperextended my thumb years and years ago playing softball and now its really easy to re-sprain it. A lot of people I know who have dislocated a shoulder have dislocated it multiple times, and all say it is much easier to dislocate now.
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