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Guo Sheng Tee: Weightlifting In Australia

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After 2 years of dedicated training, Guo Sheng Tee has managed to be one of few selected weightlifters to represent Australia. Guo Yuan Tee shares Guo Sheng’s experience.
Guo Sheng squats down and clutches the coarse and bumpy bar as sweat trickles down his forehead. He pivots his feet outwards, straightens his posture and thrust his chest outwards. He takes a few deep breaths, and finally he lifts with tremendous power. The 80kg weight is now at his shoulders. Guo Sheng stops as the cumbersome weight rests on his shoulders, and he prepares his final stance of the Clean and Jerk.
Guo Sheng was one of the few weightlifters chosen to be a participant of the Under 18 Australian Weightlifting Federation.
Before Guo Sheng began his extraordinary journey in his Weightlifting career, he participated in swimming at the Marlin Coast. However, swimming was much to his distain as his parents insisted on swimming. As a result, and few years later, he persuaded his parents for him to discontinue swimming. Subsequently, Guo Sheng began to explore other alternatives for his hobby. That’s when he discovered Weightlifting.
Guo Sheng started Weightlifting when he was 15 but however; it was months after when …show more content…

He describes this as one of the most monumental moment of his high school years. Guo Sheng was taken by surprise when he was emailed by the Australian Weightlifting Federation, that he was selected to represent Australia. “I was smiling as I told my parents and my coach; I watched their expression as their faces brought smiles and they acknowledged me on my success, especially with my coach.” Soon Guo Sheng‘s sensational news was known to his friends, relatives and all throughout his school, Smithfield State High School. The principal of Smithfield even congratulated him on his success. He depicts this as an embarrassing, but overall flattering,

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