Jo Calvino, Britain's Olympic lifting queen

The London 2012 Olympics will star 26 year-old Jo Calvino, Britain's number one female weightlifter. Her recent lift of 89kg in the clean and jerk was enough to break the British record and her 63kg snatch equalled her previously set British best, which illustrates her dominance of the sport over the past 11 years.

She's got a few cool things going on in this Guardian piece. She mentions that "A lot of Olympic and world champions have been in their early 30s" and puts this reporter and misconceptions in their place. Is this theme of mine getting old to anyone? I hope so.

excerpt from Jo cannot weight to fulfil Olympic dream (yuk yuk)
by Stuart Pink - Croydon Guardian, UK

Meeting Jo at her training camp at the National Sports Centre in Crystal Palace, it would be fair to say she does not look like the stereotypical weightlifter. But that's the problem. The stereotype is far from accurate and Jo believes that puts a lot of female athletes off the idea of becoming a weightlifter.

"People don't believe me when they find out what I do because with weighlifting, you get the crossover with body building, who are not as elegant as us." she said. "Most men say to me you can't be a weightlifter, you haven't got big enough arms or what do you bench press?' "It's not like that, you don't have to be big and muscley to lift weights."

Stuart mentions that Jo is 4' 11" (peculiar, since this is a UK paper) but not her weight.