The Syrians replace “Good Morning” with “Mabrouk” at the Tokyo Olympics
Syrian weightlifter Maen Asaad.
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The Syrians replaced the morning and evening greetings with the word "Congratulations", due to their overjoyed over the achievement of weightlifter Maan Asaad, who succeeded, the day before yesterday, in snatching bronze in the weight of +109 kg at the Tokyo Olympics, ending an Olympic drought that lasted 17 years.
Asaad gave his country its first medal since the 2004 Athens Olympics, by lifting 190 kg by snatch and 234 by net (424 kg), to be third behind Georgian, Lasha Talakhadze, who broke the world record with 488 kg, and Iranian Ali Daoudi (441 kg).
Thus, Asaad broke the barrier of the three medals that Syria won on the date of its previous participation in the Olympic Games, raising the total to four.
That bronze was like lighting a candle in the darkness of the difficult conditions in the country.
Since 2011, Syria has been witnessing a bloody conflict that has killed about half a million people, caused massive destruction to infrastructure and productive sectors, and led to the displacement and displacement of millions of people inside and outside the country.
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