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“I needed to know it could do what I wanted it to do”

EVERY OLYMPIC medal comes with a story. Often we throw around words like ‘sacrifice’ and ‘fairytale’ but when Portia Woodman looks at her medal, that hard-earned Tokyo gold, she thinks of pride and growth.

The pride for what she overcame to even be on the Olympic start line after two years of injuries and rehabilitation. Growth

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