My favorite thing to watch in the summer olympics is weightlifting, have you ever watched that? 
yea i have,  it is an athletic discipline in the modern Olympic programme in which the athlete attempts a maximum-weight
Now is it two or three different lifts that they compete in?
Olympic weightlifting
Olympic-style weightlifting, or Olympic weightlifting, often simply referred to as weightlifting, is an athletic discipline in the modern Olympic program in which the athlete attempts a maximum-weight single lift of a barbell loaded with weight plates.
The two competition lifts in order are the snatch and the clean and jerk. The snatch is a wide-grip, one-move lift. The clean and jerk is a close-grip, two-move lift. Each weightlifter receives three attempts in each, and
Leslie Ata was 28 years old at the time, and had previously represented the Solomon Islands at the 1984 Summer Olympics. He competed in the men's under 75 kilograms event on 30 July. In Olympic weightlifting, each competitor is given three attempts at each discipline, the highest successfully lifted weight counts as the athlete's mark for that portion of the competition. In the snatch Ata missed his first and second lifts on 105 kilograms, before successfully lifting the same weight on his third and final attempt. In his three