Weightlifter Sylvie Eberena, a single mother, made her four children proud when she became the French national champion in her amateur category. — AFP
ON the outskirts of Paris, 44-year-old French Muslim weightlifter Sylvie Eberena concentrates hard and pushes 80kg of bar and weights clean over her veiled head.
The single mother made her four children proud when she became the French national champion in her amateur category last year, after discovering the sport aged 40.
