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‘Strong is beautiful’: the unstoppable rise of Crossfit

00:19 Fitness | The Guardian , Guardian Edit

At the Weightlifting World Championships, femininity and physique go hand in hand – and it’s all down to the world’s biggest fitness craze

About 250 of the world’s strongest women flew home from Houston, Texas, last week after competing at the 2015 Weightlifting World Championships. Among them were dozens who, when they took up the sport, were told by a concerned relative: “Don’t do it! Weightlifting is not for girls. You’ll end up looking like a man.”

Katrin Davidsdottir, from Iceland, was among them. She said in Houston: “When I told my aunts I was weightlifting they said, ‘Don’t do it. No, it’s not feminine, you can’t do that.’ But look at the girls here – they’re strong but they’re beautiful. They’re still girly.”