Anthony Lane in his New Yorker essay "The Body Olympic" muses on all the different physiques competing in the 2012 games: svelte and strong, fast and flexible, precise and powerful. Lane concludes:

... one's sentiments are broadly in line with those of Zoe Smith, the weightlifter, who had been baited and bullied on social networks during the runup to the Games, for being a diminutive young woman in a burly sport. After her competition, she took on the trolls, reminding them that she had just taken part at the Olympics, where she had lifted twice her own body weight, and asking, "What are you doing with your life?" Good question.

(cf. That Feeling of Weightlessness (2012-06-23), ...) - ^z - 2012-08-06