Janos Baranyai Photos & Video: Hungarian Weightlifter Turns Elbow Inside Out (GRAPHIC)

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Scroll down for pictures and video of Janos Baranyai's elbow turning inside out

London's Daily Mail reports on Janos Baranyai, the Hungarian weightlifter who turned his elbow inside out in a horrific display in Beijing Wednesday:

This is the moment Hungarian weightlifter Janos Baranyai's first Olympics ended in agony when he dislocated his right elbow in the ugliest moment yet of the Olympic weightlifting competition.

Baranyai was trying to snatch 148kg in his third lift in the men's 77kg division, when his elbow popped out of its socket.

No longer able to support the weight of the barbell, his right forearm bent backward. The 24-year-old Hungarian fell to the floor in shock, shaking and crying out in pain.

Hungary's coaching staff and competition officials rushed to Baranyai's aid as he lay trembling on the floor, his arm limp and twisted out of position.

Read the entire article here, or view photos and video of the accident below:

Weight Lifter Dislocates His Elbow
by ns-knt

Comments

[geezushchrist]

05:13 PM on 08/16/2008

As ugly as it is he will be fine....The word is he will be back competing early next year. Dislocation...very painful...but nothing torn or broken.

[Tommygun264]

08:38 AM on 08/15/2008

My heart goes out to the guy and I am glad to hear that he was not seriously injured. I guess the silver lining to this is that this kind of injury, as in this case, is never as serious or permanent as one would think after seeing it take place.

For the record, this is the very first unpleasant event I have seen reported on Huffpo that at least one person hasn't tried to pin on Obama.

[fignozzle]

04:01 PM on 08/15/2008

you cracked me up with that last line!

[RosalieRMX]

01:58 AM on 08/15/2008

Huffpo seems to confuse being talked about with being worth talking about. Basking in someone's pain is FOX-worthy. Get your heads out of the p00phole, there's a lot of world worth seeing.

[NKR]

04:21 PM on 08/14/2008

On the bright side, I'm sure he's on so much morphine or other opiate now that not only is he not in pain, he's probably feeling pretty good. Poor guy though. Hope he fully recovers.

[angry expat]

03:30 PM on 08/14/2008

Huffpo turning one man's suffering into front-page news... The New York Post would be proud. Last week you quoted the National Enquirer as a source of this non-story with John Edwards. The quality of this web site is inconsistent at best. And you're different from the other media outlets because...wait, why is that again?

[huffyISaHottie]

11:21 AM on 08/16/2008

how often do you get nose bleeds up there on that high horse of yours?

[gahoggafugga]

01:52 PM on 08/14/2008

damn't i logged in here specifically to see that guy blow out his elbow, and they took it down??? . . . what a rip-off!!!!

[CtJean]

03:08 PM on 08/14/2008

why don't you do a replay and we can watch you writhe in pain

not so much huh?

[AnnoyedCanuck]

09:53 PM on 08/14/2008

Who are you, the internet news police? If you don't like this story, don't tune in.

[KevinFitzz]

01:38 PM on 08/14/2008

I'm thinking maybe Bush had something to do with this...

[Bystander]

01:54 PM on 08/14/2008

Oh, of course. And I'm sure you noticed the "black helicopter" in the background. Ha!

[thefooligan5]

12:23 PM on 08/14/2008

This is precisely why I refuse to watch weightlifting competitions live. I have heard of such injuries occuring far more than I would like and my admittedly weak stomach would not be able to take the sight. I hope this young man makes a comfortable recovery but it puts into perspective the relative pointlessness of pushing the human body to these limits. I agree that physical fitness it tremendously important and the olympics are good to inspire young ones to get out and be active but I think there is a point where we are simply pushing too hard.

[Rove]

10:03 AM on 08/14/2008

It looks bad but the guy is hung like a yak and has 6 pack abs. He'll be ok.

[nycdave]

12:48 PM on 08/14/2008

The amazing thing is, half the guys in Hungary match that description. God, I love vacationing there...

[paulsamuel]

01:38 PM on 08/14/2008

whoa, whoa, whoa ,whoa ,whoa

i don't want to hear about your attraction to hungarian yaks

[Le nombril]

09:39 AM on 08/14/2008

And then the fact that the weights bounced off his back on the way down. That had to hurt, too.

[dattexas]

09:19 AM on 08/14/2008

Ugh! Will Huffington Post please take that GD picture off your site! i can't stand it!!!

[Susej]

08:59 AM on 08/14/2008

It happened to me when I was 12 during a wrestling match. It was not painful at all.
The doctor at the ER pulled my forearm, twisted it back in place then put my arm in a cast for a month, followed by a 3 month therapy to straighten up my whole arm from the rigid right angle position of the cast.
I this case, I thing the weightlifter pulled a few muscles too which made it so painful.

[CtJean]

03:07 PM on 08/14/2008

Are you using your mother's id again?

[CitizenGeek]

07:43 AM on 08/14/2008

That looks insanely painful! Poor guy!

[MarkInEugene]

12:48 AM on 08/14/2008

HERE'S THE LATEST ON JANOS...

Janos Baranyai was carried off the platform and taken by ambulance to a China-Japan Friendship Hospital in Beijing.

His injury looks really awful, but no bones were broken and his dislocated elbow was re-seated while he was sedated. His arm looks normal now and he is recuperating. It could take several months to heal completely.

If there's a light side to this, it's that the competative Janos is doing fine and watching the rest of the weightlifting competition on TV from a his bed in the hospital according to Tamas Feher, the Hungarian weightlifting federation chief.

[CamJam]

01:02 AM on 08/14/2008

Thank you... I was hoping for an update on his condition.

Very sad day for this guy...

[NTO08]

04:56 AM on 08/14/2008

I couldn't watch the video...bad enough seeing the stills...my condolences and hope he gets better as soon as is possible...

[DevilAdvocate]

02:54 AM on 08/14/2008

thanks, that looked so bad... the pain he must be in... wow!!! I never knew that could happen...

[MarkInEugene]

12:21 AM on 08/14/2008

Oh that is brutal. Hate to see a young person in peak physical condition damage themselves this way. This is what happens when we humans push the envelope to extreme levels. Screw the gold medal, just give the poor kid his arm back!