The last time an American man won a medal in weightlifting, Hampton Morris of Marietta, Ga. had not been born yet.
The United States's most recent medal came all the way back in 1984, when Guy Carlton won a heavyweight bronze and Mario Martinez won a super heavyweight silver in Los Angeles. Morris's birth came 20 years later, in 2004, by which time American men were already riding a 20-year dry spell.
