Almost exactly three years ago today, I wrote about Laurel Hubbard competing in the female category of weightlifting. When the female athletes were asked to comment on the entry of men into their sport, all three women on the panel at the press conference refused to comment.
Breaking the silence, American weightlifter Sarah Robles leaned forward to the microphone and said, ‘No thank you.
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