Olympic weightlifting, simply known to athletes as weightlifting, is not to be confused with weight lifting, the act of lifting weights; or powerlifting, a completely different strength sport.

If you go back and forth between pounds and kilos, it helps to be able to convert them in your head. Multiply kilos by 2.2 to get pounds, or divide pounds by 2.2 to get kilos. (Kilos are "bigger" than ...