Because of difficulties in the judging of the lift, the press was taken out from weightlifting in 1976, thus leaving the sport with the two lifts it has today: the snatch and the clean & jerk.
The Press Lift is Taken Out From Weightlifting in 1976
By Hugo Rivera, About.com Guide
Super Heavyweight Weightlifter Vassily Alexeyev of the USSR Successfully Makes A Lift During the 1976 Montreal Olympics. He won the Gold Medal and set a new world record for the Jerk as well.
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