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Chinese lifter Deng Wei shatters record for gold
RIO DE JANEIRO: Chinese weightlifter Deng Wei won Olympic gold in the women’s 63kg category with a world record Tuesday after Taiwanese rival Lin Tzuchi pulled out
RIO DE JANEIRO: Chinese weightlifter Deng Wei won Olympic gold in the women’s 63kg category with a world record Tuesday after Taiwanese rival Lin Tzuchi pulled out amid reports of a failed dope test.
Deng hoisted a combined total of 262kg in Rio on Tuesday, breaking the record held by Lin, who was a surprise late withdrawal from the competition.
“I didn’t know she wasn’t participating until the very beginning of the competition,” Deng said afterwards. “I haven’t heard anything about reports of her failing a dope test,” she added.
ARGENTINA WIN, BUT SPAIN LOSE AGAIN
Argentina and Lithuania stayed unbeaten but two-time runner-up Spain’s Olympic basketball hopes took a hit Tuesday with a surprise loss to hosts Brazil.
Luis Scola scored 13 of his 23 points in the first-quarter to stake an early lead for the Argentines, who were more in synch than Croatia.
BRAZIL’S JUDO GOLD ANSWERS PRAYERS
In Rio’s violent, poverty stricken City of God slum, family and friends of Brazilian judo hero Rafaela Silva say her gold medal is a win for them all. A small crowd of people gathered in the doorway of her simple house, which has an unpainted concrete facade on the ground floor.
RIO MEDIA BUS HIT BY STONES
An attack on a bus ferrying journalists at the Olympic Games was an “act of vandalism” carried out with rocks, the Rio 2016 security chief said Wednesday.
“Stones were thrown and hit the metal part of the windows of the bus,” Luiz Fernando Correa said. Correa said security along the route was being beefed up as a result of the attack.