BBC Olympic Review - Weightlifting

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Seems like someone else is in charge of this. The review ends on women’s weightlifting with the story of the female Filipino weightlifter Hidilyn Diaz who won gold. It started with “this is when the personal comes global” and I thought “ffs not Hubbard again” but no! BBC celebrates a female weightlifter who said she grew up ashamed of her body and was told she was doing a mans sport - who won her country’s first ever gold medal

I noted that quite happily. What a great win for her!

story of the female Filipino weightlifter Hidilyn Diaz

I'll look out for that. I hope they're duly ashamed that media were more interested in talking to medal winners for the 87kg+ class about LH than they were about what the winners' own performances and stories.

I'm so thrilled for all of the countries who won their first gold or achieved 'firsts' in something. This Olympics has been a delight for that.

I think sometimes the media's tempted to go with a predetermined story no matter what - they had Simone Biles' bronze medal winning routine on the BBC homepage rather than that of the 14 year old Chinese girl who won gold (and I couldn't even tell you who got silver).

Going back a bit it reminds me of the '92 games in Barcelona where Nike backed a bunch of star athletes who for one reason or another just didn't perform - Michael Johnson etc (though he broke records in later games).