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Indonesians delight at first speed climbing Olympic gold

Indonesians delight at first speed climbing Olympic gold

  • Veddriq climbed to a personal best time of 4.75 to beat Chinese rival Wu Peng by just two hundredths of a second on the 15-meter wall
  • “Words can hardly express how we feel. Praise be to God,” his mother Rosita Hamzah told broadcaster Kompas TV
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