World Weightlifting Championship - Paris, France

So I wonder, why in the English language, almost everything related to 'wine' starts with the letter 'v' actually and not 'w' - so why it is not a wineyard but a vineyard (ok, this is more of a rhetorical question, because you grow vines there, not wines, but WHY? Cos you know, I had this cool cover regarding vineyards, so that's where my 'bother' stipulates from, realizing I actually cannot use it :D )

But then this cover from France comes to a rescue, a pretty good rescue actually.

From 5 - 13 November, the Disneyland Paris resort hosted the 79th edition of the World Weightlifting Championships and for the occasion, on 7 October 2011, the French Post issued a souvenir sheet consisting of two round stamps evoking the two weights of a weightlifting bar.

The € 0.89 stamp portrays a weightlifter's profile in the movement of the clean and jerk(it is a composite of two weightlifting movements, most often performed with a barbell: the clean and the jerk. During the clean, the lifter moves the barbell from the floor to a racked position across the deltoids, without resting fully on the clavicles. During the jerk the lifter raises the barbell to a stationary position above the head, finishing with straight arms and legs, and the feet in the same plane as the torso and barbell). The other stamp (€ 0.60) features the snatch movement where the man bears the colors of the French team. The 22nd edition of Women's World Championships also took place in Paris at the same time. (In order to respect the perspective, these stamps have two different diameters (43 and 49 mm)).


For more W-inspired words, you know where to go to - Sunday Stamps