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Laurel Hubbard drops retirement hint after Olympics furore: Age just caught up with me
Hubbard appears to be ready to step away from weightlifting again after her controversial involvement at the Olympics
4 August 2021 • 9:07am
Laurel Hubbard was the first transgender woman to compete in the Olympics
Credit: AP
Laurel Hubbard, who became the first transgender athlete to compete individually at the Olympics, has suggested she is hanging up the boots .
At 43, she told broadcasters in New Zealand that age just caught up with me . If we re being honest, it probably caught up with me some time ago, she added. My involvement in sport is probably due if nothing else to heroic amounts of anti-inflammatories and it s probably time for me to start thinking about hanging up the boots and concentrating on other things in my life.
Team GB s medal tally for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics is lagging behind its performance at Rio, despite the best start to an Olympic Games in modern times from British athletes.
Rio 2016 had been a record-breaking year for Team GB, with the overall achievement of 67 medals - 27 of them gold - and a second-place finish ahead of China, and now hopes are fading this year s Games may top this performance.
A strong start for Team GB in Tokyo came on what has been dubbed Magic Monday , which saw more gold medals awarded to British athletes at the start of an Olympics than any other in recent history.
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Weightlifter Laurel Hubbard becomes first out transgender woman to compete at the Olympics, fails to register a lift
August 2, 2021 9:19 PM
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New Zealand weightlifter Laurel Hubbard became the first out transgender woman to compete in the 125-year history of the Olympics on Monday as she failed to register a lift in the women’s super-heavyweight +87kg category.
Hubbard’s three failed attempts in the snatch one at 120kg and two at 125kg saw her exit the competition at Tokyo’s International Forum. After her final attempt, she waved to crowd and bowed before making her way off the stage.