Then an odd development begin to manifest itself through a liberalization of the rules, due in part to the influence of the Russian and Asiatic lifters. It got to a point where many of the officials were not able to keep to a strict interpretation of the rules governing this lift and gradually the rules became so lenient that the press was often called the "odd ball" lift.

It was a joke to see a lifter pressing nearly as much or more as he could jerk overhead, an example being in a 1972 competition where the great Soviet Olympic lifter Vasiily Alexeev "pressed" 518 pounds but only clean & jerked 507 pounds. Judging the Olympic clean & press overhead continued to become such a monumental problem (obvious slumped upper body/hyper-extended back, knee-kicks, and sudden jolts in the starting drive of the press) that it was finally abolished as one of the official international lifts in the early 1970s.

During its hey day as one of three standard tests of combined strength and athletic ability in weight lifting the Olympic clean & press was the most basic of all exercises, especially for the development of the shoulders. Sadly though because of its abolishment the Olympic clean & press (along with the Continental and Military press) quickly faded in popularity and became an almost forgotten exercise for Olympic style-lifters, power-bodybuilders, powerlifters and strength athletes alike. However as time has gone on many of these iron game veterans have began to S-L-O-W-L-Y return to a more isolated and traditional form of the clean & press, from decades past, as a core exercise of choice for the development of a strong overhead kinetic structural support accompanied with HUGE deltoids and traps.

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Doug Hepburn (who is featured in the "Barbell Clean & Press eBook") was considered the strongest man in the world at one time, and for good reason. Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Douglas Ivan Hepburn (1926-2000) went on to win the heavyweight class over American weightlifting icon John Davis with lifts of 371 in the press, 297 in the snatch, and 364 in the clean and jerk. Hepburn was the first man to officially bench 400, 450, and 500 lbs. He was also a great squatter: he held a world record of 630 lbs. squat, that Paul Anderson eventually exceeded in late 1952. Doug would later improve his personal best squat to 760 lbs.

During his prime Doug weighed 280 and was reportedly capable of the following lifts: