Nauru’s sole athlete at the Olympics
As previously reported, Nauru has one athlete at the Beijing Olympics, a weightlifter in the top weight division, Itte Detenamo.
That the small size of Nauru’s team, relative to others, matches the size of the island of Nauru, hasn’t been lost on some of the world’s media. Nauru has gained a bit of passing comment as a result. Here is some of their response, mainly, it seems, from North American media:
- The Team USA website has a great feature article on Nauru and an interview with Itte Detenamo.
- Mashable has a nice article on small countries (by team size) at the Olympics, noting that Nauru is one of 5 countries with only a sole athlete. (For the record, the others are Togo, Guinea, Grenada & Haiti.)
- The Toronto Star reported that Team Nauru turned up to Beijing without uniforms for the opening ceremony, so headed down to the market to have some made up.
- Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee) blogs about the usual Nauru question – where is it?
- Commercial Appeal (Memphis), has a few quotes from Itte Detenamo about his excitement in carrying his flag out in the Opening Ceremony.
Detenamo’s event (Men’s Weightlifting, 105+ kg category, Group B) starts at 15:30 (Beijing time) on 19 August (Tuesday). Keep a watch here for his results.
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