Tag: weightlifting

‘Unfair’ for Trans Weightlifter to Compete in Female Category: Aussie Senator and Women’s Rights Group

August 10, 2021
Australiagender diversityInternationalLGBTTokyo 2020 OlympicsweightliftingWorld
0 Comment

Australian Senator Claire Chandler has criticised the International Olympic Committee (IOC) for allowing a trans weightlifter to compete in the female heavy-weightlifting category at the Tokyo Games. New Zealand’s Laurel Hubbard, who was born male, took the spot that 18-year-old Roviel Detenamo would have won, if it wasn’t for the IOC’s trans inclusion policy, according…

Read More

Grandma, 71, Trains in the Gym for 16 Hours a Week, Has Set 30 State and World Records

June 5, 2021
GrandmagymInspiredInspiring NewsLife & Traditionweightliftingworld record
0 Comment

Meet one of the world’s toughest grandmas, an international powerlifting champion who says she looks and feels better than she did 40 years ago. Mary Duffy, 71, from Trumbull in Connecticut, took up gym workouts at the ripe age of 59 in a bid to lose weight—and soon got hooked on lifting weights. Now, not…

Read More