Breeze won gold medals at both the Manchester 2002 and Melbourne 2006 Games, and became the first ever British women to compete in an Olympic weightlifting competition at Athens 2004. 

She competed again at Beijing 2008 - where she was Britain's only lifter - before taking a silver medal at the Delhi 2010 Commonwealth Games after which she announced her retirement. 

Following her retirement, Breeze was made a Member of the British Empire (MBE) for "Services to Weightlifting" in 2011 and thereafter focused on coaching and opened a gym in Aberdare where she aimed to inspire the next generation.

But after some of those she coached entered her, as a joke, in the Welsh Championships she not only won comfortably but achieved the Commonwealth qualification standard.

She then represented Wales at the Celtic Championships in Cardiff, where she lifted 45 kilograms above the qualification standard, and this has convinced her that a comeback remains possible. 

Breeze won plaudits from around the world at Beijing 2008 after she battled through her competition despite suffering from injury ©Getty Images




Breeze is currently one of two Welsh lifters, along with London 2012 Olympian Gareth Evans, who also achieved a Commonwealth qualification standard.