Martha Rogers Thread

[mgil]

Excellent showing tonight!

[ChrisMcCarthy1979]

Well done to them both!

[ChrisMcCarthy1979]

Nye's Jerk are really starting to come on.

[damufunman]

Hell of a session. @mbasic didn't realize the Asian and European totals were that low! Too bad they both need to bump up to 76 for Tokyo. I didn't see the Asian Championship results for 76 though, but Kate doing better than the Europeans winner is awesome and bodes well for Tokyo.
ETA: looks like W76 Asians just finished up (started about 90 minutes ago?)

[MPhelps]

The U.S. is killing it at Pan Ams. Alyssa Richie, CJ and Kate Nye sweeped gold.

Too bad about Mattie coming in silver, she really pushed it, and apparently had food poisoning. It's popular to shit on Mattie and love Kate on social media. Kate seems to showboat a bit too much, not a big fan of the self celebration on the platform. Even if it was huge, especially that 110 snatch, Ho Lee Fuk.

[ChrisMcCarthy1979]

I was wondering to myself "If I were Pyrros Dimas, would I consider holding Mattie's hair whilst she puked a bigger highlight in my life than all my Gold Medals???"

I am still wondering btw...

[mbasic]

The U.S. is killing it at Pan Ams. Alyssa Richie, CJ and Kate Nye sweeped gold.

Too bad about Mattie coming in silver, she really pushed it, and apparently had food poisoning. It's popular to shit on Mattie and love Kate on social media. Kate seems to showboat a bit too much, not a big fan of the self celebration on the platform. Even if it was huge, especially that 110 snatch, Ho Lee Fuk.

I'd have to dig into it myself, I've had little time to watch this .... but I think (heard) a lot of other countries didn't submit their all-out-best-teams.

I agree with what you said about the platform antics thing....but whatcha gonna do? Hopefully she'll grow out of it.

Go to Guatemala and get food poisoning? big surprise. i think that's happened before with a few athletes when the panams are held in the 'south'.
Kinda call bullshit on that to. Like when Jordan had the flu in the 97 playoffs and scored 40.
That was the best clean of her whole fucking life (even though big step forward). IIRC 135-137 has been be pinning her of late.
She seemed fine.

[mbasic]

Also, Jourdan delaCruz girl !
bronze SN
gold CJ
gold TTL

That 116 CJ was incredible

[mgil]

Yeah, this is exciting for USAW.

[mbasic]

Yeah, this is exciting for USAW.

I guess Harrison Maurus was injured; that kid is a stud too.
I think he just showed up to be weigh-in and be available for testing.

We could have a good team (good for USA; best USA team for a long while) going into Tokyo.

[MPhelps]

The U.S. is killing it at Pan Ams. Alyssa Richie, CJ and Kate Nye sweeped gold.

Too bad about Mattie coming in silver, she really pushed it, and apparently had food poisoning. It's popular to shit on Mattie and love Kate on social media. Kate seems to showboat a bit too much, not a big fan of the self celebration on the platform. Even if it was huge, especially that 110 snatch, Ho Lee Fuk.

I'd have to dig into it myself, I've had little time to watch this .... but I think (heard) a lot of other countries didn't submit their all-out-best-teams.

I agree with what you said about the platform antics thing....but whatcha gonna do? Hopefully she'll grow out of it.

Go to Guatemala and get food poisoning? big surprise. i think that's happened before with a few athletes when the panams are held in the 'south'.
Kinda call bullshit on that to. Like when Jordan had the flu in the 97 playoffs and scored 40.
That was the best clean of her whole fucking life (even though big step forward). IIRC 135-137 has been be pinning her of late.
She seemed fine.

Good point. Usually Colombia mops the floor with us. Kate is young, and hopefully she'll grow out of it. Mattie does like to make excuses. The fact that she cleaned 140 out of nowhere and got the jerk overhead even is impressive.

[mbasic]

The fact that she cleaned 140 out of nowhere and got the jerk overhead even is impressive.

I didnt see the videos of mattie's lifts right away, but read about the 140 attempt...
....thought FOR SURE, she just did the token-get-on-stage-and-did-the-high-pull-thing.
Had to really eat my hat when I finally saw the video.
If she would've stuck that jerk .... oh man!

[mbasic]

Usually Colombia mops the floor with us.

IIRC, there has been a small handful of sanctions from some of the South American countries lately.

They've probably have had to "reevaluate their situation" or whatever the term is ...

[damufunman]

I wouldn't say Kate's reactions to hitting a a new record in a big event were over the top, especially in such a close session.

[MPhelps]

I wouldn't say Kate's reactions to hitting a a new record in a big event were over the top, especially in such a close session.

True, but she does this a lot.



#teammattiecakesx5

[mbasic]

Shit, I'm just reminded that 71 isn't even an Olympics weight class. A lot of unknowns for these two.

[damufunman]

I wouldn't say Kate's reactions to hitting a a new record in a big event were over the top, especially in such a close session.

True, but she does this a lot.



#teammattiecakesx5

She's beeting breaking quite a few records lately, and still improving...
#teamkate, I guess. Being in the same area may have something to do with that, Mattie is great too though.

[mbasic]

the other mattie ... Mattie Sasser started the day for Team USA earning a gold medal for her 129kg clean and jerk and a bronze medal for her 227kg total in the 64kg category.

[Ragholmes]

Kinda call bullshit on that to. Like when Jordan had the flu in the 97 playoffs and scored 40.
That was the best clean of her whole fucking life

There is a saying in Cricket, "Beware of the sick batsman" My best score ever was when I was horribly sick and it was also 42 C (something like 110 Farhenheit)
There are many, many instances of athletes performing exceptionally well when sick. I believe that sometimes when you feel like absolute crap you don't let your head get in the way, no overthinking, no trying to anticipate, just pure reaction relying solely on skill/ability/prior training.

[mbasic]

Kinda call bullshit on that to. Like when Jordan had the flu in the 97 playoffs and scored 40.
That was the best clean of her whole fucking life

There is a saying in Cricket, "Beware of the sick batsman" My best score ever was when I was horribly sick and it was also 42 C (something like 110 Farhenheit)
There are many, many instances of athletes performing exceptionally well when sick. I believe that sometimes when you feel like absolute crap you don't let your head get in the way, no overthinking, no trying to anticipate, just pure reaction relying solely on skill/ability/prior training.

Yeah, I'm not dying either one had something wrong, but it obvs didn't effect performance....so.......why mention it. I've had this happen too on a lesser scale of course. Where I was surprised I had a good day In The gym while sick... usually this happens towards the end of the "sickness cycle".