As a highly accomplished competitive gymnast as a teenager, Kate Nye may have envisioned herself winning an Olympic medal for a sparkling floor routine or an amazing vault. But here’s Nye in Tokyo with a silver medal around her neck for weightlifting. How did that happen?
On the today’s In The Village podcast, Nye tells host Elizabeth Beisel how a knee injury at 16 took her from a gymnast to a CrossFit athlete, where she found her “passion for lifting heavy things,” to a medal-winning Olympic weightlifter.
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