This week on Barbell Shrug, we interview the one and only Demetri Cloakov weightlifting champion.

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Welcome to Barbell Shrug. Mike Blitzer here with Doug Larsen, Chris Moore, and we are in Salt Lake City at USAW Nationals for the big weightlifting meet.

You may have heard of it. We are also here with Demetri Cloakov. Welcome, OMG.

And we have with us also Igor. He'll be translating when necessary.

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All right. So now we're going to kick this off. This is going to be our first interview with somebody who doesn't speak English super

fluently. So bear with us. But Demetri is catching on very quickly. You said only seven months so far.

No, maybe if I drink fake work with you, I think this is better. So Demetri got on to us because we picked what we thought would be the most authentic and most respectful

bot guy. It's it's only passable. Only okay bot guy. I think. Okay. You're from Russia. I feel I feel really excellent about it. I'm just about a

toxic enough that good time. It works good enough for me. What brand of vodka do you drink in Russia? Come on my nice

sportsman. He's an athlete. He's an athlete. He's a sportsman. He doesn't drink. We are sportsmen too. Are we supposed to believe you

looks like an athlete? Demetri, I think I read and you did an interview with Mark Bell. His magazine was it power? Yes,

power power. American magazine. I think you said quite common for the Russian athletes to drink to relax.

I have no now 73 seminars for last seven months and all time I said if you won't be professional sportsman,

at least you must sometimes drink. Oh yes. Inside of the day after training after sauna, after massage,

you must go in bar or discotheque and say to say to wow. Come on. You sound like you get along with Jackie Perez. Our friend Jackie likes to drink after

she trains. Not too much but maybe little. But everything has its place. What's what's a little for Russian? I have a feeling you're little and my little

question is your answer to. If you ask me about how much you know what answer? I feel like Russians are just like Yoda.

Not same size with what Arnold was not you demonstrating his favorite famous movie,

Pumple and Kyron. Remember little one and say it's enough. For Russian people of course it's not enough.

What age did you start weightlifting? I started in 1995, 10 December. Maybe 13. Today I make video with this guy who

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