Wednesday, August 8, 2012

Phil Hartman as a drug-infused powerlifter.
Speaking of the Olympics, I was watching beach volleyball last night when they gave an update from a few other sports.  One of the updates was Olympic weightlifting where German weightlifter Mathias Steiner was trying to lift 432 lbs. of weight, got it about head high, and then slipped or fell.  The weights came crashing down and the bar pinned him against the ground.  The Olympic staff hurried out and even put a barrier between the scene and the audience in case there was something gruesome.  Turns out he did hurt his neck a little but he was okay.  It was still pretty dramatic.  See his video at the bottom of this post.

As Bob Costas was setting this story up, it was clear that we were about to witness something bad and immediately I hoped it wasn't what we saw at the All Drug Olympics held in the 1980s: Click Here To See.
 
The All Drug Olympics video is another classic from SNL in the 80s.  I'm glad it is still fiction and that isn't what Bob Costas cut in to show us.  Still, the Mathias Steiner injury was pretty hard to watch.  Some people will do anything to go viral.

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