White Rock's Girard pumped about getting 2012 Olympic weightlifting gold six years later
It’s better late than never for weightlifter Christine Girard.
On Thursday, the International Olympic Committee officially confirmed that six years after the 2012 London Summer Olympics, Girard is to be awarded the gold medal in the women’s 63-kilogram weight class.
The two women who finished above Girard — Maiya Maneza of Kazakhstan and Svetlana Tsarukaeva of Russia — were stripped of their gold and silver medals, respectively, after a 2016 retest of samples showed they
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