Press era Up until 1972, weightlifting was clean and press, snatch and clean and jerk - after the Olympics in 72, the clean and press was discontinued. This lead to very significant technical improvements over the next few decades, with the snatch and clean and jerks records skyrocketing in less than a decade. It did mean that the press movement switched from a competition movement to a minor accessories, with little to no lifters ever being really really strong in the press Klokov is an excepti