Evans starred for Wales at the 2002 Commonwealth Games in the weightlifting and judo squads.
Regardless of how she does, she wants to continue to pursue both weightlifting and skeleton.
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Meanwhile, China added to their weightlifting gold rush when Liao Hui won the men's 69kg category.
Things got a little harder, nagging injuries added up, heavy weightlifting took a greater daily toll.
Predictably, Eurasians dominate weightlifting, wrestling and most field events, such as the shot put and hammer.
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At that time, after quitting weightlifting, my high school PE teacher recommended the students to play golf.
After the 2000 Olympics, leaders launched an effort dubbed Project 119, boosting funding in swimming, gymnastics and weightlifting.
The state should subsidise less popular sports like diving, gymnastics and weightlifting, China Daily quotes him as saying.
Pak Hyon Suk won North Korea's first weightlifting gold with total lifts of 241kgs in the women's 63kg division.
The feeling that I sensed at that moment, compared to other sports such as weightlifting or baseball, was unforgettable.
Basketball, table tennis, judo, handball, indoor volleyball, water polo, weightlifting and beach volleyball have all already been given host national places.
Indeed, at the new Nikaia Olympic weightlifting hall there were more volunteers and officials than paying spectators for the early sessions.
The way China's diminutive Zhan Xugang mocked gravity and hoisted a 357.5 kg combined weight off the floor in the weightlifting?
If you want to focus on a single Olympic hopeful, Barnett can't help much, since USA Weightlifting's charter precludes his showing favoritism.
Weider entered his first weightlifting contest at age 17, soon earning a name for himself in Canada, according to his website.
"No doubt fuelled by that drunkenness, you retaliated to a dispute over the weightlifting and embarked on a vicious attack, " he said.
Many once-proud national programs have fallen prey to it Bulgarian weightlifting, Hungarian saber fencing not to mention some not-so-proud programs like East German swimming.
And whole books have been written about the cheaters in international swimming and weightlifting, to say nothing of the Tour de France.
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On Wednesday, a section of ceiling caved in at the weightlifting venue.
He said he came to associate the macho bulk that resulted from weightlifting with a slower swing and stiffer movement in the field.
While toe-touches and extra flexibility might be required in gymnastics or figure skating, it's irrelevant for more everyday activities like basketball or weightlifting.
Kyle Pierce, a professor of kinesiology at Louisiana State-Shreveport, which houses the USA Weightlifting Development Center, says Ms. Uhlaender has plenty of potential.
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He dated women, went to church and joined a weightlifting club and even a gang, all to try to feel heterosexual, but nothing worked.
But skeleton and weightlifting have about as much in common as quilting and auto repair, and that is what makes Ms. Uhlaender so unusual.
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Wei Di, who was head of China's Water Sports Administration, has little experience in football, having also been in charge of Chinese boxing and weightlifting.
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Udomporn won the women's 53kg weightlifting crown and Asian superpower China clinched its fifth gold courtesy of Xian Dongmei's victory in the women's 52kg judo.
At the weightlifting trials, Ms. Uhlaender will be a self-described underdog.
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"Weightlifting on a routine basis -- meaning twice a week vigorously for 30-40 minutes -- for both men and women is really the key, " Peeke said.
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Mr Owen said it was especially important the torch visited Anglesey because a weightlifting centre on the island had been selected as an official Olympic training site.
The South Asian nation of 1.2 billion is fielding 84 athletes in 13 sports including hockey, table tennis, weightlifting, wrestling, shooting and badminton, as well as 58 officials.
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