Tokyo 2020 Olympics - Weightlifting - Men's 96kg - Group B - Tokyo International Forum, Tokyo, Japan - July 31, 2021. Cyrille Tchatchet II of the Refugee Olympic Team in action. REUTERS/Edgard Garrido
TOKYO (Reuters) - Cameroonian Cyrille Tchatchet II was always unlikely to win a medal but the first weightlifter from the Refugee Olympic Team proved a big hit with the sparse crowd at the Tokyo International Forum on Saturday.
Tchatchet finished second in the 96kg Group B, the competition for lifters who have registered lighter weights which precedes the battle for medals and world records in Group A.
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