Canada’s Christine Girard confirmed Olympic weightlifting champion by IOC
Christine Girard is reconnecting with the version of herself who lifted twice her body weight over her head at the 2012 Olympic Games in London.
The businesswoman, weightlifting coach and mother of three children will be crowned Olympic champion years later.
The women ahead of her stripped of gold and silver months ago for doping violations, the International Olympic Committee has confirmed the medal redistribution of the women’s 63-kilogram class and Girard’s promotion from bronze to gold.
“It feels like it’s been so long,” Girard told The Canadian Press on Thursday. “I look at videos and pictures that pop up on my Facebook and it really feels like it was another life.”