Egypt's First Woman Weight Lifter - First To Win A Medal!

Sara Ahmed Becomes First Arab Woman To Win Olympic Medal In Weightlifting

She’s also the first Egyptian woman to stand on an Olympic Podium.

08/11/2016 04:10 pm ET
Thomas Lipe  Sports Department Intern, The Huffington Post


Egypt’s Sara Ahmed made Olympic history Wednesday by not only becoming the first Arab woman to win a medal in weightlifting, but also the first Egyptian woman to stand on the podium. The 18-year-old finished third in the women’s 69 kilogram weight class by lifting a combined weight of 255 kilograms, or 562.17 pounds, and she looked awesome doing it.   



http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/sara-ahmed-medal-weightlifting_us_57acad49e4b0db3be07d72db

Ben Reilly wrote:Ahhhh ... that is the Olympics at its best.

A harrowing road to Rio: Refugees who fled violence at home compete under the Olympic flag

by David Wharton
Just before the start of the race – her first as an Olympic swimmer – Yusra Mardini took a moment to look down.
The 18-year-old Syrian was trying to keep things simple, focusing on what she needed to do to in the first heat of the women’s 100-meter butterfly.
“I was only thinking about water,” she said.
Competing at these 2016 Summer Games is not so straightforward for Mardini, who less than a year ago was fighting for her life in the bitterly cold Aegean Sea.
Diving out of a small boat overcrowded with refugees, she paddled for 3½ hours, her body going numb as she helped pull the dinghy to a distant island.
“Without swimming,” she said recently, “I would never be alive.”
http://www.latimes.com/sports/olympics/la-sp-oly-refugees-20160806-snap-story.html