Heavy weight: New Zealand’s Laurel Hubbard in action during the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. — Reuters
MANCHESTER (England): New Zealand weightlifter Laurel Hubbard’s appearance at the 2020 Tokyo Games as the first openly transgender woman to compete at the Olympics received mixed reviews in one of the most contentious areas in sport.
In the end, Hubbard retired after an inauspicious performance in Tokyo where she failed to record a valid lift.
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