Kenyan weightlifter Mercy Obiero assists her daughter Chanel Okoth to lifts weights during a training session at a gym within Umoja estate in Nairobi, Kenya. Photo: Reuters/Monicah Mwangi
Keysha Atiki is only 10 but she can already lift her own weight as she trains with a weightlifting coach who once competed in the Olympics – her grandmother.
Mercy Obiero was only the second African woman to compete in weightlifting at the Olympics, representing her native Kenya in 2012.
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