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Peru’s Female Weightlifters Suffer Anemia, Says Cristina Cornejo
Don’t tell this woman you just cut her team’s food allowance by 80 percent! My favorite Peruvian weightlifter – the mighty, mighty Cristina Cornejo — returned to Peru after participating in the Beijing Summer Olympics, with hopes of helping her fellow (sister?) weightlifters achieve new heights. Now it turns out the Peruvian weightlifters can barely train due to malnutrition. And our girl Cornejo is demanding that Peru help feed the athletes. According to a Nov. 7 item in Diario Correo, the Peruvian Institute of Sports (IPD) initially promised an ample food allowance for the 11 members of the national women’s weightlifting team. However, that allowance was drastically reduced after a…
