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Speaking to the Philippine Daily Inquirer, Diaz said, “I sacrificed a lot. I wasn’t able to be with my mother and father for how many months and years and then of course, training was excruciating. But God had a plan.”
30-year-old Diaz is at her fourth Olympics. At the 2016 Rio Olympics, she won a silver prize and became the first woman from her country to win an Olympic medal.Her Olympics bio reads, “When she was 11, the Filipina was given a barbell to train with after a local weightlifting competition, and she practiced so hard that she wore it out, breaking the bar from overuse.”
“”But people and clubs noticed her dedication and donated more bars to the girl who loved to lift as she became a frequent fixture at every competition she could enter.”
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