Becoming a competitive weightlifter

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and i

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decided to

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take that on full time from there

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i've been weightlifting for about four

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years my first national

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competition was youth nationals in 2016.

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about two years into my career i kind of

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realized i could

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go places with this in 2018 i had my

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first international medals

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at the junior world championships and

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from there it kind of took off and last

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year in 2019

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and my breakout year the highlight would

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be

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my 2019 world championship

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last year i had a minor meet in cuba

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and i just didn't want to lift i wasn't

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feeling motivated i didn't have that

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fire in me that i usually do

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i bombed out which means you don't make

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a lift when i got home i

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didn't really get out of bed for about a

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week

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and i had been dealing with you know

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bouts of depression for

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probably two years at that point that

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was kind of my