The 2024 IWF World Cup was a thrilling climax to Olympic qualifying period for the sport of weightlifting. The -49kg category was electric as we saw athletes moving in and out of the top 10, upsets, victories, saves, and much more. Watch as athletes like Giulia Imperio, Hou Zhihui, Jiang Huihua, Ri Song-gum and more battle it out.
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00:00 Introduction
06:21 Snatches
40:45 Top 10 Snatches
58:34 Clean & Jerks
01:30:45 Top 10 Clean & Jerks
Finally the full video release. been waiting for this
Thank you for uploading the complete competition, incredible athletes🤩
Fang winking at the camera after her 3rd C&J may just had me fall in love a little 😆
Why are people bitching about the Imperio thumbnail? She is the thumbnail because people are invested in her story about making top 10.
Right next to her picture it says 'last chance qualifier' and people can't understand why she's featured on the thumbnail? Ridiculous.
Because there are asían lifters making history right now and they are being shadowed because they don't have the looks like Giulia. Giulia is overrated as hell. Weightlifting is not about looks brother.
@@funkydoggie6487 That sounds like a you issue, brother. None of the other lifters are being overshadowed by not appearing on the thumbnail.
@@8_bit_Andy all I'm saying is that Giulia shouldn't been the face of the category because there are more successful lifters in the category and Giulia bombed out all of her attempts
@@funkydoggie6487 You're right that she should not be the face of this category. I don't watch a lot of this channel, but I get the sense from other comments that WH uses Giulia for clickbait a little too much, so I understand the push back. In this particular meet tho, I feel like her story going into the last chance qualifier was the most compelling and her 3rd lift in the snatch made her the right choice for the thumbnail.
Man. You could see the moment Giulia realized it won't happen way down in the squat. Heartbreaking.
I really really hope Ri Song Gum gets to partake in the next olympics. She'd already deserve to be in this one. And it'd be such a treat to see her.
She's been around a while too, I remember her as a lil youth back in 2014. But she didn't get to go to Rio or Tokyo, and now not Paris. Hopefully she gets the next one.
@@carlosrojas01 They say her name at 1:42:32 and again at 1:45:26 and also her county of origin at 1:46:01
@@carlosrojas01 what are you talking about? They were literally GUSHING over her. They called her the greatest lifter on the planet (which she IS). I'm a HUGE fan of Ri Song Gum (my favorite lifter) and I thought they gave her ample recognition. I woke early to watch the live broadcast. The 49's are my favorite division and I TOO am a Giulia Imperio fan.
Im a new fan of this niche sport. Used to ignore it until I saw an old video of Imperio, yes obviously. But now that Ive been watching these videos for months, Imperio is not the mega star I thought she was lol.
Halo effect
Mainly, it’s because she’s attractive lol
@@jolssoni2499ronda rousey effect
@@fishstraws626 yeah, many start watching once they start to see hot girls. I started watching strong man/woman too because of Melissa Peacock :) and
It’s all bullshit hype.
That North Korean lady is a unit. That build is perfect for weightlifting.
Agree - she is an amazing lifter.
Curious if you are going to make the Giulias the thumbnails at the Olympics also!
They would. They know simps will click straight away. Those girls can’t hack it. With all the yelling and bullshet 😂 emote emote bolshet 😂
The hyper fixation on a lifter not even going to the Olympics is annoying.
@@JimTheTheexactly
Hot chicks get clicks
And we know exactly why they do it
No chance the olympics hold a candle to what we just witnessed. That was one hell of a session! Thank you for posting this!
wow. Just wow. Thank you.
3:34 Clock running for no reason 8:20 Wrong competitor walks out 9:59 "No lift" quickly changed to "good lift" This event was very poorly managed, and that's _before_ the judging
First time watch.. Hour.. thank you..
The realest video on this channel ever!
Hou Zhihui came in clutch omw
I hope she is picked for 2024 Paris Olympics. She is a worthy gold Olympic medalist. Its baffling Imperio is even taking any real footage time. It seems WL spent more time talking about imperio and not enough on the top 3, which we the real weightlifting fans paid for.
45:56 That is so unfortunate. You can see it looks like it dislocated or something in the slow-mo. And she was doing so well too ☹
To give even more context Surodchana Khambao her teammate and her both were battling for a spot. Both made a 200kg total at Asians last year. Though because Khambao did it first she was ranked higher. This session looked like Thunya could break 200 and take the lead. But alias she won't be going to the Olympics because she made her total 2 minutes after her teammate.
lets goo
Giulia You will always the best for me. ❤
She is more concerned about her makeup, Instagram diva mode.
Giulia always my number one 🙃
Give the winner her due, no disrespect to imperio but this is a performance based sport the thumbnail should be the winner not who you think is pretty but didn't perform. Am sure she will compete better in the future and that's when you should have her on there. This is what kills sports and minimizing the efforts of champions because of subjective standards.
Could not have said it any better. There were so many athletes with outstanding performances in this session. Even 2 world records were broken.
Being an attractive woman who can snatch 85kg is far more rare, and dare I say more impressive overall, than being an entirely unattractive woman who can snatch 95kg. I actually think the opposite of what you're saying is true -- the sport should be trying to market its attractive female lifters and should push the other female lifters to look more presentable and attractive. Men's weightlifting has a natural advantage in that it tends to lend itself to attractive features in men. On the women's side, by marketing attractive female lifters and by showing that good female lifters can be attractive, (i) men will be more likely to watch and (ii) normal woman are more apt to say "wow, women can be strong AND attractive!". Keep in mind that "minimizing the efforts of champions because of subjective standards" can apply to women's weightlifting on the whole. For example, if I want to see just the best of the best at each weight, why would I even bother with the women's division at all? At the 2020 Olympics, the 3 medalists in 61kg (the lowest men's weight class) had higher totals than all but one female lifter -- not one weight class, but a SINGLE lifter, the gold medalist from China in the women's unlimited class. Why even bother watching if those are just substandard lifts? One reason is to see that attractive women can compete and be pretty strong.
@@Sajidov3 Congrats on the award for "most idiotic take of the year"
It's just using a notable athlete to get people to click on the video. Regardless of attractiveness, no one who's seen a few viral clips of the Giulias on Instagram knows who Ri Song Gum is, and they wouldn't click on her.
@@Sajidov3 I mean come on by that logic being an attractive woman who can snatch 85kg on one leg is even more rare that doesn't mean the world needs to stop watching two legged lifters. Life isn't fair I get it some are pretty and strong some aren't, we apply rules to make things as fair as possible so that people can standout as much as possible on their merit. That's why we have weight classes. Attractiveness is subjective for the most part and even if it wasn't it shouldn't play as much of a role because no that's just how your born it's not something you worked hard for. The person in that weight category that won the event worked the hardest and committed the most time and took the most risks and approached it the best way but they won't get sponsors and they have to suffer in life because people don't like how they look, and for the fans of the sport we will never learn how that athlete became the best because our attention has gone to the shiny new thing. This isn't an attack on imperio! I really was rooting for her to qualify for the Olympics and her last snatch was epic! I hope she stays healthy and peaks perfectly for the next Olympics. This approach of using a "marketable athletes" by organizations has backfired so much even for the marketable athlete. She's probably going to get criticism over this and in the back of her head she might even start to think do I even deserve to be here or am I here because they like to look at me. She was completely in her head during the competition this approach ruins the athlete and the sport. The aesthetic based fitness has been completely ruined by this approach because in many cases the "attractive" people go into it knowing they will win because it promotes the sport, why compete if you know you wont even truly win the competition? It might honestly even discourage potential greats in the future, the risk associated with weightlifting is far too great to not be passionate about that actual sport and the process and if we are pushing the athletes taking that risk aside might as well cancel the sport. Weightlifting house will get it's clicks but progress will be halted.
Which class did Mihaela Cambei competed? Its an olympic class?
She did 55s
@@AJsaurus15 I can see why she switched, but seems like they won’t upload that category ):
So why is Ri Song Gum not at the Olympics if she's basically the #1? Legit question. I'm not too informed on the whole topic. Also: Why does #11 become #10?
North Korean can’t compete in the olympics..and I’m not sure why
@@abdulrahimroslan1771 Because they were serving a doping ban. So by the time the penalty elapsed they were too late to make the OQR
They did not compete at Worlds last year which was a mandatory event if you want to go to the Olympics.
Oh I see. Thank you all for the answers.
32:57 so clutch!
01:13:30 - so heartbreaking this session
Next Olympics, Giulia ❤
Thank you - this is the best category in weightlifting. So many story lines, so much on the line. The Olympics is going to be a joke without having Ri and Jiang. 2 of the 3 best lifters won’t be there. Not worth watching.
Giulia Imperio y Giulia Miserendino están en crisis porque están levantando horriblemente mal a tal punto que parece que lo hacen a propósito! Deben equilibrar sus vidas personales para competir en óptimas condiciones!
Трудная категория...!. В ней надо все время следить за весом. Это вымотывает...
Goated that one of the most unsuccessful athletes in the session is used in the thumbnail and in a fuckton more of the videos just cause she's the most attractive lmao
this is insanity at this point
@@Mr.Ciobanu I mean she's from my country so, good, but it is pretty funny
@@Mr.Ciobanu Also made 1!! out of 6 lifts
Its weird, on one side its good to give the sport visibility/views, but on the other the people who tune in get really disapointed just as you or ask something bizarre like "Did she won????"
especially considering Hou Zhihui BROKE A WORLD RECORD at 51:30! You’d think that would be noteworthy!
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Why can’t the NK woman Ri compete in Olympics?
no loredana footage in what seems like forever.
She hasn't really done anything of note, she did win Euros this year, but that was on the basis that Olivia Reeves couldn't win a medal. Reeves beat Toma by like 15KG. I hope we see Toma in shape for the Olympics. At the World Cup Toma came like 12th.
@@SomeSeriousWeight not shot in hell, injury + the other athletes improving too much. She will finish maybe 6-7th if she has the meet of her life
1:45:36 when i saw the way she stood this up live, my jaw dropped to the floor
My jaw was already on the floor after her second attempt...I hadn't had time to pick it up. The fact that she walked out to take her third attempt blew my mind.
10:26-10:38 Video freezes
Две девочки из Венесуэлы и Италии соревновались с трансами-азиатами!
Where is Mihaela Cambei?
Already safe in top 10, didnt need to participate
@@kasra_mlg :)
Why do they keep opening up Giuliana at 85 if every time she misses it. They should have opened her at 80 or 83.
@@user-cr3vz2jh9c I agree with you. And yes, I am a weightlifter.
Hay dos que parecen hombres, muy sospechoso
Porque la ponen en la miniatura a imperio. Si siempre pierde. Solo se la pasa en instagram. A descuidado mucho sus entrenamientos
last one was no lift...
Giulia is the pretty one
Giulia Imperio ❤
A lot of haters on Giulia. Sometimes it just pays to be pretty. I watch Olympic lifting either way, but I always click an Imperio thumbnail. Anyways, serious question: Do they check under the hood to qualify? I know there is huge stigma behind Thailand, but the stats are so high up there it's almost not just a stigma. I'd be curious to know if some are using PEB's (performance enhancing balls)😆
Simpin for team Italy is a must - This channel
Yeah dude needs to chillax with the clickbait and simping
@@rundown132 I think you two are projecting your own issues.
@@loganit0 Stop simping for the channel. They are spot on with their remarks. All this channel does is profit from Imperio's snatch
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Thailand sending males ?
I was wondering the same thing…
This weight division has so many gorgeous girls. Venezuelan, Italian and Romanian. Just wow
Am I the only one who can't unsee the Japanese flag in the midst of their red singlet make their athletes look like human ketchup bottles?
Imperio 💔☹️
Not only was there a new world record in weightlifting, there was also a world record for how many ‘AD’s’ in 1 KZhead video!! It’s beyond annoying!!
I'm really getting annoyed with the 'skip in 5' ads that can't actually be skipped and go straight into a 2nd ad or 16 second countdown. YT is getting real shady with their ads now that they lost the adblock fight.
@@8_bit_Andy YES YES YES!! I agree! I’ve never ever watched a KZhead Channel with the amount AD’s that this channel has!! It’s beyond frustrating. The whole “skip in 5” is never the case!! It’s adds more and more time before the video continues to play. It’s ridiculous. I need to find a different channel that uploads these competitions.
Just use an adblocker bro. I literally have never seen an ad on youtube since 2011
@@mmm-px6wc Ohh how do I do that please?
@lottie8970 you can use "ublock origin" which is an extension available on chrome, firefox, edge etc. You can also use a browser called "brave" which has a native adblocker
Does anyone know if any, or how many (and who) of these athletes had a Male biological sex assigned at birth? I dont mean to start a fuss, but very curious
I used to care about this sport, as well as strenght sports in general, until I understood that the most juiced athlete will always win. Giulia Imperio could smoke the competition if she wanted, but she knows she's beautiful and chances are she doesn't want to spoil her facial features with the roidz other girls are taking...
Will not be watching any more weightlifting unless the boys are removed from the womens comp.
Imperio is overrated
She's alright. It's the people hyping her up that are overrating her for views
@@nattyfatty6.0 hence that’s why she’s overrated
Yeah really gotta up the doses if she wants to have a chance
@@abdulrahimroslan1771 Reading comprehension isn't your strong suit
Thailand athelete is not women😄
What is a woman ? - Joe Brandon 😂😂
You folks tricked us with that thumbnail.. I thought she would do better.. Bummer
Weightlifting commentators are racists they never mention the name or origin of the North Korean lifter during the lifts, that is unprofessionalism. Shame on you.
They did? Multiple times. What are you on about?
They mention North Korea twenty-two times during the video and say Ri Song Gum's name eleven times. Mostly while she's on stage. Please watch the video first next time you dolt.
Wow! It looks like being a brain donor has certain undesirable side effects. Who knew?
Imperio is light years away from threatening anybody notable in her weight class even if she did make it to the Olympics. Her would be total here was 189kg, she would only total higher than 2 athletes in this competition
For some athletes, just making it to the olympics is a dream realized.