MissSilvestris

As a girl who also enjoys the technicality and beauty of Olympic lifting, thank you! Your lifts are inspiring to watch and it is evident how hard you have worked to get to this point. I am so glad that your donation drive raised enough money to send your coach to the Olympics with you. Good luck in London and I look forward to watching you for a long time!

My question is that usually women have weaker upper body strength than lower body strength. I don't know how long ago you would have had to deal with that since you were a discus thrower in the past but do you find that the snatch and jerk portions of the clean and jerk were harder for you to train than squats and deadlifts (assuming you also do some powerlifting)? And an auxiliary question: what other lifts do you do besides the Olympic lifts to train?

I know Risto shoes gave the three team members some very nice looking warmups and singlets.

http://www.ristosports.com/index.php?main_page=page&id=15&zenid=b5d0c5151ff694274013d5dbed086214