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Some Popular Olympic Sports

1. Weightlifting

Weightlifting is a sport as old as mankind. You need a combination of power and strength, speed and concentration, as well as timing. Women were allowed to lift weights for the first time at the 2000 Olympics.



Lidia Valentín from Spain at the 2012 Olympics
Image: Simon Q, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons



Words

  • mankind = humans as a group
  • strength = being strong
  • timing = to do something at the right time