At the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, TCHATCHET II Cyrille, then 18 years old, slipped away from Team Cameroon’s housing in search of a better life. Seven years later, TCHATCHET, lifted on the world’s greatest stage Saturday as a member of the Refugee Olympic Team (EOT). “It didn’t go as planned. But I am happy […]
ELBAKH Fares Ibrahim exploded with emotion Saturday night after making his opening 217kg clean and jerk. With that lift, he etched himself into Olympic history, winning his nation, QAT, its first ever Olympic gold medal in any sport. “I am literally speechless about that. I hope that they are proud of me. I promise this […]
CHN claimed its third gold medal and first World Record of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 Wednesday after an exciting men’s 73kg session that produced the bronze medalist from the B group of the competition. SHI Zhiyong (CHI) broke his World Record in total with 364kg, one kilogram more than the record he set at […]
For the second consecutive day, a nation had an Olympic first– and weightlifting played host to the historic moments. On Tuesday, Turkmenistan ended its Olympic medal drought, when GURYEVA Polina broke through, winning silver in the women’s 59kg bodyweight category — the first medal of any kind for the nation. “I am really proud about […]
After nearly a century of trying, a Filipino athlete finally landed atop the Olympic podium– and it happened in the sport of Weightlifting. A 97-year drought ended Monday as DIAZ Hidilyn, 30, in her fourth consecutive Olympic Games, stunned the world and won an Olympic Gold for the Philippines, the nation’s first since entering Olympic […]