KATHERINE NYE

Stars will shine bright on Woodward Avenue this Thanksgiving morning.

Overall Team USA has 73 Olympic medals and 47 of those have been won by female athletes.

Katherine Nye recent victory has made her the first American woman to win silver at the Olympic Games, according to USA Weightlifting.

Katherine Nye lifted a personal best total of 249kg to become the first female silver medalist in American weightlifting history.

Here are the athletes with ties to the great state of Michigan competing at the Tokyo Olympics.

The path to Tokyo for many athletes has taken a few twists and turns.

While men’s weightlifting has always been an Olympic sport, women were unable to compete until the 2000 Sydney games. In Tokyo this summer, a Metro Detroit woman is setting her sights on the weightlifting medal podium. But when she found weightlifting as a 16-year-old girl she found her true passion and now she’s on her way to Tokyo. But that’s life, right?” Nye said. Nye said that it was her positivity that helped her get through last year, even though the COVID pandemic postponed her Olympic dream.