Alexandra Escobar, an Ecuadorian athlete who represented her country earlier this week in the women’s weightlifting competition at the 2012 Olympics in London, is one of the athletes profiled in the Through Her Eyes Project. Click the video above to watch her story. 

Here is a taste of her insight and advice for women and girls around the world:

“I would say play this sport. Don’t pay attention to what the people say. Because in the beginning people said I would look like a man, that it was ugly. But if you follow the people, you’re never going to win anything. You have to do what you like. What happens is, you see, when you are the only woman and it is all men, you feel, I don’t know. You feel very different. It gives you energy to better yourself, to pass them, to demonstrate that we are not, as they say, the weaker sex. Now, women are doing more than men. And I think better. And this is demonstrated for the whole world, now women are not just for cooking and cleaning. We’re showing kids that women have the same rights as men.”

9 months ago on August 02, 2012 at 08:30pm
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