Jul 27, 2021

Olympic outsider teams celebrate rare gold medals in Tokyo

Posted Jul 27, 2021 4:43 PM

TOKYO (AP) — The Tokyo Olympics have brought some unexpected gold medals for countries and teams which rarely see their athletes on the podium.

Flora Duffy of Bermuda won the women's triathlon, Hidilyn Diaz of the Philippines took gold in weightlifting, Cheung Ka Long of Hong Kong earned gold in fencing, and swimmer Ahmed Hafnaoui of Tunisia won the men's 400-meter freestyle race. Distria Krasniqi and Nora Gjakova both won gold medals in judo for Kosovo.

Cheung said, "it means a lot to show to the world we can do it."