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This had a large impact on a range of people with the person being impacted the most Valerie Adams. Valerie had been devastated with her result of only coming in with a silver medal at second place after the incredible amount of hard work and training that she had put in in order to achieve the results that she had been striving for. "I'm just very disappointed in myself. I just really wanted to give them more, and give it more. I trained really hard, I've been in Switzerland for such a long time.
I tried. I can't say I didn't try. We won a silver medal and we have to be happy with that." This shows how hard
Valerie took the results, really punishing herself and feeling not only that she had let herself down but also the country. This was a large …show more content…

Six months after the games Val received the news of Ostapchuk’s disqualification due to banned drug enhancement and her new position as the first place getter and gold medalist, she was overtaken with a variety of emotions. Her first instinct was shocked and stoked as she realized that she was number one and all of her hard work had really paid off. She felt proud of herself, proud to be a New Zealander and was stoked with her accomplishment of now holding up the title of being a two time champion. Once the fact that she was the winner had sunk in she was the hit with the emotion of disappointment and was upset that she had her spotlight stolen. She deserved to have the honor and over whelming feeling of happiness and be proud while she got to climb the podium in front of the 80,000 at the stadium and have the gold medal around her neck as the national anthem played, with her family watching, her supporters and the rest of the country acknowledging her great achievement. Instead Ostapchuk not only robbed
Valerie of this experience, replacing it with

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