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A beard was a lazy man's alternative to weightlifting.
She sees it in the way women flock to weightlifting classes and proudly display their muscular backs.
The 32-year-old grew up in Nauru, where his father worked in the phosphate industry, and was drawn to weightlifting by the success of a local competitor.
He was already 1.8 metres (6 feet) tall and weighed 90 kg (198 pounds) when he enrolled at the Archangelsk Forestry Institute in 1961 and was introduced to weightlifting.
In one of his many books, Do I Come Here Often?, he gives credit for his physical transformation and the harnessing of his aggression, to a teacher - a Mr Pepperman - who introduced him to weightlifting.
Still, the former gymnast, who switched to weightlifting aged 12 and found it "came easy", won Commonwealth bronze in 2010 aged 16, and by her own admission has hugely upped her commitment since then, giving her an outside chance of a medal here.
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allowed women to weightlift starting in 2000.
But problems with her knees forced her to look for another sport, so she decided to try weightlifting at Breeze's gym in Aberdare following advice from a friend.
Nick Hawk found a way to combine weightlifting with intercourse.
The answer is to get fit enough to progress to the weightlifting room where there are no television screens, just brick walls and machinery.
All my life, I continually had to prove that I was capable of doing everything I wanted to, from playing guitar and riding motorcycles to lifeguarding and weightlifting.
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