(Aug 6): Chinese wrestler Walihan Sailike, who won the bronze medal in the men's Greco-Roman 60 kilograms at the Tokyo Olympic Games on Monday, has won big applause on Chinese social media, Global Times reported. The 29-year-old Kazak athlete from Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region won China its first medal in the event since the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. The medal is also a milestone in the history of sports in the Xinjiang region, the Xinjiang Daily reported. "Bronze medals in competitions that are less popular [in China] are more precious than gold medals in popular sports," one netizen commented on Weibo. You are the pride of China," another Chinese netizen wrote.

Source: The Edge Markets August 04, 2021 15:11 UTC