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The Biggest Reasons American Weightlifters Aren't Winning
"Arguments on the Internet are almost always pointless. People talk past each other, quibble over meaningless semantic details, and never end up convincing their opponents of anything. I, for one, have little interest in Internet battles - life is complicated enough as it is. What I do care about is the sport of weightlifting and helping it grow and thrive, because it is fun, I think it makes you better person, and it looks damned cool.
As I see it there are only two arguments being put forward about why American's aren't kicking butt in weightlifting that are helpful, true on a large scale, and would make any serious difference if changed:
American Weightlifters are TOO clean. That is, they don't use (or rarely use) steroids and other performance enhancing drugs the way their counterparts do in top performing countries.
Most Americans who are not weightlifters don't even know the sport exists, let alone watch it.
All other arguments are subservient to, or subsets of the arguments above. American weightlifting either needs to allow steroids, dramatically increase the number of people who do the sport, or both. Without at least one of those being true, all other arguments lose their meaning."