Weightlifter Katherine Nye on her journey to Tokyo2020 💪🥇 ⤵️
says it feels amazing. “It’s definitely very satisfying, especially when it’s a heavier lift,” says the 5’4” Oakland University junior. “When you’re working towards something and you finally achieve that goal, it’s such a satisfying feeling.”
“If you told me I was going to the Olympics when I was 13, 14 … I would be confused as to how.” Kate’s Olympic journey started as a toddler, but not where you’d expect. Long before she had ever lifted a weight, she trained as a gymnast with hopes of one day making it to the Olympics, and, when it became clear that wouldn’t be possible, of getting a college scholarship for the sport. Kate trained hard for 11 years, until, at age 15, she tore her meniscus.
Kate took her win as a sign — she decided to take on weightlifting full time and quit Crossfit. “I think that’s when I really realized I had what it took to potentially become a world champion, an Olympian, all that stuff,” she said. “It was a pivot in my career from, ‘I'm pretty good at this’ to, ‘let’s make this my career.’”
The journey toward body acceptance, meanwhile, mirrors what Kate says is “a societal shift in how women view exercise.” At the moment, women are dominating in weightlifting in the United States, and the sport is “exploding.” Women’s weightlifting wasn’t even an Olympic event until 2000. Now, she says, attitudes about how women should exercise and what they should look like are changing. “Women are being more and more encouraged to lift weights and be strong and independent,” she said.
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