Laurel Hubbard’s Olympic dream dies under world’s gaze

First openly trans athlete eliminated from weightliftingHubbard thanks IOC and New Zealand Olympic CommitteeHistory was made on a Tokyo evening of superhuman strength and simmering tension as Laurel Hubbard, a 43-year-old weightlifter from New Zealand, became the first openly trans woman athlete to compete at an Olympic Games.But Hubbard, who was born male but began identifying as a woman in 2013, buckled under pressure of the world’s gaze, as well as the weight of the huge bar she was try