Olivia Reeves: the Olympic weightlifting champion making her sport more accessible

Olivia Reeves is the Olympic weightlifting champion doing the heavy lifting to make her sport more accessible. She became the first American woman in twenty-four years to win an Olympic Gold medal in weightlifting when she topped the podium at the Paris Games. However, there's much more to the 22-year-olds story than athletic excellence as the woman from Tennessee is opening her sport up to people who want to try it but were maybe a little too intimidated to do so. Reeves tells the BBC’s Katie Smith how she became Olympic weightlifting champion, how she developed a winning mindset and how her life has changed since winning Gold in France.

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