Thanks folks. Pretty emotional about it all sat I'm my hotel room tonight. I've done all this the hard way. I'm certainly not a natural, never been genetically built to be strong, I've had something like 20 hours coaching in my life, mostly train in isolation just in my garage, came here alone without a handler or friends or family to cheer me on. I had a brutal final nights weight cut where i sweated out almost 5kg in the bath overnight. But I did it with the help of a select few members of the British team today.
And no cnut can ever take that away from me. I will always have that medal and the record books will always say that I was the 2015 100kg open equipped deadlift champion. Always.