Madias Ngake’s real-life movie script ends with weightlifting silver after sleeping rough

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First Madias Ngake lifted the weight of an upright piano to her shoulders. Then, with another staggering act of power and defiance, she sent a 128kg barbell high above her head. And, just like that, the 34-year-old Team England weightlifter had won a silver medal and written one of the most remarkable stories of these Games. Fourteen years ago, Ngake fled the London 2012 Olympic village after finishing sixth in her competition and ended up sleeping rough for a month. The reason? She was competing for Cameroon, where homosexuality is illegal, and someone in the team had found out that she was a lesbian. And so began a journey that…

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