Weightlifting bronze medalist Mikiko Ando arrived at her news conference in a wheelchair, got up and slowly walked onto the podium using a crutch to protect her injured right knee.
Her bronze-medal Tuesday in the women’s 59-kg class, already an impressive feat, suddenly took on the look of a monumental achievement.
Ando had severely hurt her knee when she dropped a 120-kg barbell just three weeks before the Tokyo Olympics.