Olympic Athletes Thriving on Vegetarian Diets
Long-time vegetarian and Olympian Lizzie Armitstead wins a silver medal for Great Britain at the London 2012 games.
On Sunday, Olympic cyclist Lizzie
Armitstead took home a silver medal for Great Britain after enduring an
87-mile road cycling race, second to Marianne Vos from the Netherlands. A
vegetarian since 10, Armitstead told the Montreal Gazette, “I
don't like meat, and I can't sort of get my head around eating a
corpse.” Fellow Olympians recognized for their meat-free diets include:
runners Paavo Nurmi and Emil Voigt, track and field athletes Edwin Moses
and Carl Lewis, skier Bode Miller, wrestler Christopher Campbell,
tennis player Martina Navratilova, and vegan swimmer Murray Rose.
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