Olympics Archives - Living with Scleroderma https://livingwithscleroderma.com/tag/olympics/ Reflections on the Messy Complexity of Chronicity Sun, 29 Jul 2012 22:17:25 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 31053421 Strong Bodies https://livingwithscleroderma.com/strong-bodies/ https://livingwithscleroderma.com/strong-bodies/#respond Tue, 31 Jul 2012 12:00:41 +0000 http://www.livingwithscleroderma.com/?p=707 Thighs like small boulders, wasp-waisted, she approaches the platform. The young Olympic athlete dips her hands in resin, claps, strokes her chalked palms back and forth over the steel barbell weighing 94 kilos—207 pounds—shifts from one foot to the next, then back again. The horn blasts. She clenches her jaw, squats, yanks the barbell up […]

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