El peso de la gloria

Lydia narrates her sports career, the day to day of a weightlifter, with her dreams, her triumphs, achievements and also with her frustrations and injuries. She describes the world of sports and elite athletes with great accuracy and closeness. She begins the book with a problem that she had in 2015. Three years ago she had returned from the London Games with a historic fourth place for Spanish weightlifting, and later became Olympic gold for the disqualification for doping of the medalists. She had not been able to compete in Houston and was still dragging her injury around the facilities of the High Performance Center in Madrid. There were a few months left before the start of the Rio Games, where everyone expected the great triumph of her career to materialize, but another heavy curtain falls in front of her. She didn't know how it could have happened, but she was back to square one. Something inside her had broken and she couldn't put the pieces back together.