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From: wales@ucla-cs.UUCP
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Subject: Slip of the tongue in Olympic weightlifting coverage
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Date: Fri, 10-Aug-84 17:21:15 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug 10 17:21:15 1984
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Yesterday (Thursday, 9 August), I was watching Olympic weightlifting.
They were doing the "clean-and-jerk" (where the barbell is brought up
first from the ground to the shoulders, then over the head in a sep-
arate motion).

After an Australian super-heavyweight did the lift that (I believe) got
him the gold medal, the ABC commentator praised the athlete's superior
technique by saying, "What a jerk!"

If the weightlifter had heard that little laudatory comment, I suspect
he would probably have "clean-and-jerk"ed the ABC commentator!  :-)
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