Olympic Weightlifter Janos Baranyai of Hungary dislocates his elbow — and it’s not pretty:
The injury is ironic in two ways.
First, despite the fact that weightlifting seems like it should be dangerous, it is in fact one of the safest competitive sports out there — much safer than soccer, for instance.
Second, Baranyai is a former judo competitor. Judo, of course, allows arm-bars, which threaten exactly this kind of injury.
Addendum: The video is almost unwatchable — you’ve been warned — but what struck me, besides his obvious pain, was how quickly a team of Chinese staff appeared to screen off the injured lifter from view: