NIGERIA’S Ruel Ishaku won a gold medal in the only weightlifting event his country was allowed to enter yesterday.
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Ishaku, who walks with the aid of crutches after suffering poliomyelitis, won the EAD powerlifting.
Nigeria was banned from able-bodied lifting after three of its lifters infringed anti-doping rules within a calendar year, causing the whole country to be punished.
