Six months after it became official, Olympic weightlifter Christine Girard is finally set to receive her proper medals.
The longtime Semiahmoo Peninsula resident and member of Langley-based Kilophile Weightlifting Club - who originally from Quebec - is in Ottawa this morning to officially receive gold and bronze Olympic medals.
Girard learned back in April that her bronze medal from the 2012 Summer Olympics in London - won in the womenB次元官网网址檚 63-kg division - was officially upgraded to gold after the two finishers ahead of her on the podium, KazakhstanB次元官网网址檚 Maiya Maneza and RussiaB次元官网网址檚 Svetlana Tsurukaeva, respectively B次元官网网址� were discovered to have tested positive for banned substances, leaving Girard as the only clean athlete left from the original trio of podium finishes.
Prior to that news, GirardB次元官网网址檚 fourth-place finish from the 2008 Olympics had already been bumped to bronze - again, due to doping of athletes ahead of her - but she had never actually received the medal.
Today, she will receive both in a special ceremony. The event is to be live-streamed by CBC (see below).
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