Robles hopes Olympic glow will attract funds for Rio


LONDON (Reuters) - Her Olympic moment over, American weightlifter Sarah Robles prepared to return to the real world on Sunday more hopeful of avoiding a life of food banks, pity and prayers.

The United States' strongest woman has made headlines not for winning a medal but her determination just to get to the London Olympics while surviving on a $400 a month award from USA Weightlifting -- a sum her U.S. Olympian team mates Serena Williams and LeBron James might spend on dinner.

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