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Holley Mangold (Olympic weightlifter)

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Mangold spoke to reporters at the U.S. Olympic Committee media summit in Dallas last month.

(Nick) is not going to come (to London). It's not that he doesn't want to go. Football is my brother's life. You wouldn't see me missing training or a big meet to watch one of his games. I know it's different because it's the Olympics, but it's a big part of their season.

It doesn't feel like he supports me any less. He wants to be there, but my brother has always had a huge sense of team and leadership, and he would feel like he was letting the team down if he went to London.

I got two years done of college before I decided to quit and pursue weightlifting full time. After the Olympics, I'll have to go back to school and start doing actual hard work. I'm a triple major unfortunately. It's a little crazy: Theology, sociology and philosophy.

Weightlifting is so amazing because it's like a 400-pound golf swing. It's so technical and it looks so effortless when you do it right. And when you do it wrong, it looks really, really heavy. There's this thing we call 'weightless.' It's when you get a good lift, and the bar feels weightless, and you don't feel it until it's over your head. You get that lift maybe 1 in 100. But if you get it, you're chasing it for the rest of your life. In the zone. It's kind of amazing. I love it.

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http://www.usatoday.com/sports/olym...rstands-nicks-decision-on-olympics/55669092/1

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Mangold ahead of schedule in Olympic lifting
Updated: July 6, 2012
Associated Press


Holley Mangold is accustomed to making headlines.

She was, after all, the only girl on her high school football team in Ohio, maybe not that big of a surprise since she's the sister of New York Jets center Nick Mangold.

She's not a novelty anymore. She's an Olympian.

Mangold will compete as a superheavyweight in weightlifting at the London Games later this month. Her coaches initially saw her as a prospect for the 2016 Olympics but her progress the past year -- she upped her lift totals by more than 70 pounds -- put her ahead of schedule.

Nick Mangold couldn't be prouder, and he predicts more than one Olympics in his sister's future.

"As an older brother, you love to see your siblings do great things and this is something she tried to do and was successful at it and it's a great thing to see," he said. "There are people who have been training their whole lives for this opportunity and she's been doing it for two years."

However long she pursues Olympic success, Mangold will take along a gregarious personality and a quick wit. She's comfortable with her size (about 350 pounds), and showed as much during an episode called "I'm the Big Girl" last year on MTV's "True Life."

She'd like to help reshape the image of female weightlifters.

Mangold doesn't wear makeup while competing. Fingernail polish, well, that's another thing entirely. Tiny barbells adorned her nails during the Olympic trials in March. She's planning something in red, white and blue for London.

"I feel like women weightlifters try to be too feminine just to show that they're still feminine," she said. "I don't do that. I try to have a nice balance. But I haven't really had any problems. People usually don't say anything to your face because they're intimidated that you can out lift them."

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She's strong, but nothing compared to the East German "women" from the 70s and 80s Olympics.

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Michael Arace commentary: Mangold has done it her way
Saturday July 14, 2012

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Eric Albrecht | DISPATCH

Before she discovered weightlifting, Columbus resident Holley Mangold played 12 years of football and wanted to be an Olympic gymnast.

Holley Mangold?s Olympic story has been aired by a wide range of media outlets on both flanks, from Fox Sports to NPR Radio, HBO?s Real Sports to MTV?s True Life. She has been featured in the Times (of New York and Los Angeles). Already, she is a favorite of London?s Fleet Street tabloids.

The details are what draw the interest.

Mangold played 12 years of football. She played as an offensive lineman in an Ohio high-school state championship game. Her brother is a center for the New York Jets, which adds to her profile. Her intellect, quick wit and mischievous sense of humor also help.

One of her favorite lines has to do with the realization that she wasn?t going to make the Olympics as a gymnast, because, heh, heh, heh, she didn?t have the build.

Mangold, 22, is 5 feet 8, 350 pounds and can scoop up Bela Karolyi as if he were a pixie.

Mangold is a weightlifter.

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http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/sports/2012/07/14/mangold-has-done-it-her-way.html

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A weight is finally lifted for Ohio Olympian Holley Mangold
Published: Saturday, July 21, 201
By Doug Lesmerises, The Plain Dealer

CENTERVILLE, Ohio ? Shepherd's pie has been suggested to the Olympian for her late lunch on a Sunday afternoon in a Dayton restaurant, but Holley Mangold is exasperated that her training partner, Heather Smith, has ordered seafood, because now she can't pick at her friend's plate.

Mangold doesn't like seafood. She tried sushi once, then dreamed fish were swimming in her stomach.

Surrounded by friends and family in a back booth, Mangold has just finished commanding the room with jokes, self-deprecating smirks and feats of strength performed before a banner that reads, "Long Lift the Queen."

She arrived on a redeye flight from Los Angeles at 10 a.m., but kept this appointment near her hometown of Centerville, Ohio, that was arranged by her father Vern as a demonstration of what Mangold now does best.

Lift weights. Be herself.

In two weeks, she will be at it again, this time in London at the Summer Olympics.

Hometown pub. International stage. When you're as comfortable in your skin as 340-pound Holley Mangold, you're never out of place.

"Thank God I wasn't skinny, because God only knows how cocky and terrible I'd be," she said.

About 150 fans gathered to watch Mangold lift, mingle and answer questions about her latest passion. The interaction is made possible by the culmination of a 15-year quest, an elite athlete seeking the right sport to indulge her unique talents.

She explained the difference between power lifting and Olympic lifting.

'She reassured girls (and their families) who might want to follow her path. She told a grade-schooler that, yes, she could lift weights -- but not in a dress. She posed for photos, sometimes with babies.

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http://www.cleveland.com/olympics/index.ssf/2012/07/a_weight_is_finally_lifted_for.html

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I am watching the women's weightlifting competition presently showing on nbcolympics.com. Holley snatched 105 kg on her 2nd attempt and was noticeably in pain. She hurt her wrist on the failed first attempt and seemed to injure it further with the second attempt.
 
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We got to attend Holley's event today. Proud of her and Robles' efforts. Yes, dont know how much was on TV, but she obviously was in pain after the first lift.

I know nothing about weightlifting, but even I knew the Russian coaches screwed up their strategy. The Russian girl and the Chinese dude traded world records, but the Chinese guy came out on top.

The in house announcer mentioned afterward that the top 2 women lifted more than the best Great Britain man, and invited anyone who wanted to have a go to try out for Rio. :lol:
 
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