Olivia Reeves wins first U.S. gold in weightlifting since 2000

Olivia Reeves won the United States' first Olympic gold medal in weightlifting in 24 years at the Paris Olympics on Friday.

Reeves lifted 117 kilograms (390 pounds) in the snatch and 145kg (320 pounds) in the clean and jerk for a total of 262kg to beat Mari Leivis Sanchez of Colombia by five kilograms in the women's 71kg division. Angie Dajomes of Ecuador took the bronze.

Reeves, from Hixson, Tennessee, seemed calm during the competition, but said later she had been feeling the nerves. Reeves said she wanted to treat the Olympics as just another event, "and I got more nervous than all the others, so it didn't really work."