Olivia Reeves lifted her way into weightlifting history on Friday, winning the second Olympic gold medal for Team USA.
The 21-year-old broke an Olympic record in the snatch and put herself in the gold medal position with her first clean & jerk attemptOlivia Reeves lifted her way into weightlifting history on Friday, winning the second Olympic gold medal for Team USA since women were allowed to compete in 2000.
The gold was then all but Reeves' to lose. No other woman in the 71kg session could match her on the clean & jerk, if she's able to register her first attempt at 140kg.WATCH: Women's weightlifting 71kg session China's Liao Guifang, 2023 World Champion and weightlifting total world record holder , would have been Reeve's biggest threat to gold but she wasn't selected to join the team.Reeves' parents own a CrossFit gym and she has been competing since she was young. She holds an impressive number of 15 American records in youth, junior and senior categories.
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