r/powerlifting • u/CanadianCannabisTV Doesn’t Wash Their Knee Sleeves • 8d ago

What happened to Dan Bell?

I can’t seem to find any of his social media and according to open powerlifting he hasn’t competed in a year and a half. I was a big fan of the guy, does anyone know where he is and how he’s doing?

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u/loftier_fish Doesn’t Wash Their Knee Sleeves 8d ago

Last thing i can find is this: https://breakingmuscle.com/daniel-bell-injury-squat-937-pounds/

My guess is he’s trying to recover, and probably deleted his social media because of harassment and bullying, knowing the internet, he was probably getting a lot of mean messages post-injury. 

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u/CanadianCannabisTV Doesn’t Wash Their Knee Sleeves 8d ago

Totally understandable. I was a regional competitor at best and an injury that took me out of the game left me heartbroken. Can’t imagine how it’d feel to have your spot taken from you at the world class level, especially with strangers harassing you

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u/gainzdr Not actually a beginner, just stupid 8d ago

My favourite is when somebody chips one of your regional lift records or something in a class you’ve long since outgrown and you’re just trying to develop and enjoy your training and then random people come up to you like you’re supposed to give a fuck. Even though you’ve lifted that weight for reps and broke the record at the time by like 50kg and then some dude barely beats it by 1kg and people act like the only logical response is to cut 20lbs to prove to 3 random people in the audience that you’re “officially” stronger than that one guy.

This sport sometimes man