Much more than raw strength

To understand the sport of weighlifting is to understand that speed and agility play huge roles

Grace and speed may not be the first things that come to mind when you think of weightlifting. Outside the sport, few people realize how much swiftness and agility matter, even for the plus-sized super heavyweights as they perform the two Olympic lifts - the snatch and the clean and jerk.

"If the snatch takes more than a second or two, something's gone wrong," said Holley Mangold, a 350-pound American strongwoman who will compete in the women's super heavyweight category.