‘Man From Mars’ Karlos Nasar Wins Olympic Weightlifting Gold With New World Report

Bulgarian Karlos Nasar grew to become the lightest man to carry 400 kilogrammes in competitors as he shattered the lads’s 89kg weightlifting world file on the Olympics on Friday. “The Olympic Games are like going into space for me and I feel like I’m on Mars,” stated the 20-year-old Nasar. Tied for first after lifting 180kg within the opening snatch spherical, the 20-year-old delayed his entry within the clear and jerk till most of his rivals had used their three makes an attempt at decrease weights.

With his first carry he flipped 213 kilogrammes over his head to safe the gold.

That left him two makes an attempt to whole 400kg and he opted to goal excessive.

Nasar appeared barely troubled. Pausing an additional beat with the bar on his chest, he grinned, earlier than hoisting a world file 224kg over his head for a complete of 404kg, one other file.

Nasar has reportedly lifted even better weights in coaching.

“I have visualised the win many times and I succeeded each time,” he stated.

When requested if he was taking part in to the digital camera, Nasar grinned.

“Sometimes the emotions that I show, I cannot control,” he stated. “Sometimes I don’t even remember what happened on the stage.”

Colombian Yeison Lopez was second on 390kg. Italian Antonino Pizzolato scored a dramatic bronze after failing on his first two makes an attempt earlier than he was solely spared a no-score when judges upheld his attraction after a video evaluate.

The discuss on the press convention quickly turned to Nasar’s romantic life.

Nasar stated he could be heading to the rhythmic gymnastics on Saturday to help the Bulgarian group and his girlfriend Magdalina Minevska.

Weightlifting has lengthy struggled to rid itself of the destructive picture as a playground for dopers.

Nasar, who set his first world file at 17, might be the charismatic dangerous boy the game must generate extra beneficial curiosity.

In 2022, he was arrested in a Bulgarian seashore resort and the next February acquired a suspended jail sentence for driving underneath the affect of leisure medication and with out a licence and making an attempt to evade arrest.

In May final yr, he reached for the cleaning soap whereas showering in a Sofia lodge, dislodging the sink which shattered slicing considered one of his Achilles’ tendons. He required surgical procedure.

“Every single movement is painful,” he stated on the time. “It’s hard to even brush my teeth and open my eyes.”

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