DARTMOUTH: When Payton Dicks stepped onto the powerlifting platform at the Special Olympics Canada Summer Games in Medicine Hat, Alta., she wasn’t just carrying the weight of the barbell. She was carrying months of uncertainty and a lot of hard work that could easily have been derailed. Instead, the Dartmouth-area athlete left Alberta with four gold medals. Dicks, 16, was a standout for Team Nova Scotia at the Aug. 11-15 national summer games, w…
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