Off Track ..... Female lifters raise bar in beauty stakes
China Daily | Updated: 2008-08-17 08:09
In women's weightlifting, it's possible to have beauty as well as brawn.
That's the defiant message coming from the bar belles of the Beijing Olympics.
World and Olympic champion Cao Lei, and 2006 Commonwealth Games gold medalist Michaela Breeze have spoken up for their fellow women lifters, often dismissed as freaks with V-shaped torsos, bull necks and thunder thighs.
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