Wired To The Teeth

Wired to the TeethHe Strides imperiously onto the stage and the crowd at the Olympic hall in Montreal cheers wildly. Vasily Alexeyev, already acclaimed as the world's strongest man and assured of his second Olympic weight-lifting gold medal in the superheavy division, is about to attempt a world record in the clean and jerk.New weights are added to the metal bar bell that rests on the floor and is the focal point of the weight-lifting competition, raising the total weight to 255 kilograms, or a...