Yahoo Sports· 56m ago· 1 min read
From the cauldron of the Commonwealth Games to the white heat of the kitchen, Emily Campbell is all about being centre stage.
Britain's greatest weightlifter carries the heavy burden of being a sporting trailblazer like a champion, so don't bet against her when she makes her MasterChef debut later this summer.
The truth about this simple but gripping sport is that the bigger they are, the more emotional they often seem to become, and Campbell duly blinked back the tears after brilliantly defending her Commonwealth Games +86kg weightlifting title.
Emily Campbell broke the Commowealth Games record on her way to gold in Glasgow (Reuters) With gold secured, she set about breaking her own Commonwealth record, hoisting the equivalent of two adult humans above her head with a new clean and jerk best of 163kg. Her winning total, added to her 115kg snatch, was also a new Games record of…
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