It was a great honour  to be chosen as Australia’s Section Manager and Head Coach for Weightlifting for the Olympics and to actually experience what it was like being at the Olympics  and be at the Opening and Closing Ceremony, live in the village and use the training hall, work with the press and AOC, be in the warm-up room and bring   athletes to the platform.

Also with a great honour like this also comes great responsibility and I was very conscious to work as hard as I could to do my best for the team and the country.

I was surprisingly busy and  I did not feel  I really had a chance to have any real downtime until I had been there for 2 weeks.

Damo had not had the best buildup so the hoped for 400+ total was not achievable but his 165, 216 was a great result also Seen placed 7th in the 63’s – the best she could have done in her group.

Its really hard to summarise the “What was it like?” question but I suppose the best answer is “A great honour to be part of it  and an awesome experience”