TOKYO (AP) — After 21 years of raising the bar, the first woman ever to compete in weightlifting at the Olympics is still going. Loa Dika Toua of Papua New Guinea was the first athlete to step on ...
Weightlifting has been a staple of competition since humans developed the cognitive ability to look at each other's glutes, as the echoes of a softly grunted "pathetic" bounced against cave walls, ...
PARIS (AP) — A hulking weightlifter raises a bar of more than 300 pounds (135 kilograms) and swiftly drops it the ground, followed by cheers cascading down from the crowd. Before another competitor ...
BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - Delicate fingers wrap tightly around an iron bar. Brynn Catalano gives a grunt and snatches it from the ground. She squats deep and hoists the bar high over her head, then ...
After 21 years of raising the bar, the first woman ever to compete in weightlifting at the Olympics is still going. Loa Dika Toua of Papua New Guinea was the first athlete to step on stage when ...
Loa Dika Toua of Papa New Guinea celebrates after a lift in the women's 49kg weightlifting event, at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Saturday, July 24, 2021, in Tokyo, Japan. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno) TOKYO (AP ...