Prapawadee credits name change with Olympic gold
Sunday, 10 Aug 2008 14:51
Prapawadee Jaroenrattanatarakoon of Thailand has taken the gold medal as she won the women's 53kg weightlifting. Prapawadee set a new Olympic record as she lifted a total of 221kg, including 95kg in the snatch and an Olympic record score of 126kg in the clean and jerk.
Prapawadee was previously known as Chanpim Kantatian, but changed her name in 2007.
"A fortune teller told me if I changed my name I would go far, so I changed it because I wanted to go to the Olympics," she said.
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Good for her. :)
You gotta love people's need to believe in superstition and the like :)
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Really? A name change is all it takes to "go far"?
That's it! I'm changing my name to Dave Cromattanatarakoon
;-)
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that new last name's quite catchy, but i think you'd better work on the first name.