In the end, Mangold and Robles both made the Olympic team Mangold winning the clean and jerk, Robles the snatch.

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Smith has gone to conquer a multitude of British records since taking up the sport, in her two chosen disciplines: the snatch and the clean and jerk.

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Each candidate could participate in a weight-lifting faceoff, executing a progressively heavier clean and jerk with barbells illustrated, for motivational purposes, with the faces of, say, Kim Jong-un and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

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After setting U.S. records at the 2010 Pan Am Games for the clean and jerk and total weight in the 85 kilogram weight class, Farris is making the trip to London.

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As they sat in the audience, their father talked about being a teen-ager in Vienna, watching the Russian Yury Vlasov clean-and-jerk nearly five hundred pounds.

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The off-season calls for a diversity of repetitions muscle endurance one day, maximum strength the next, a power lift after that in an Olympic-style program of the clean, jerk and snatch.

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