Team Canada's weightlifting gold medallist Maude Charron says she hopes her victory at the Tokyo Olympics inspires other young women to take up the sport.
The 28-year-old from Rimouski, Que. told CTV News Channel on Sunday that the dominating performance from Canadian female athletes at the Summer Games shows that women can meet and surpass the athletic level of their male counterparts.
"Showing to people that staying in your hometown, even if it's not a big city, that you can achieve your goal and you can become an Olympian, I wanted in that way to prove it to myself ... and I think that I succeed there," Charron said. Charron said her success came without having a gym to train at due to COVID-19, instead having to practice in her dad's garage for the past year.
Charron said she is trying not to dwell on that fact that her sport may get cut from the Games, and instead, focus on the aspects of her life that she can control.
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