A man holding a Turkish fag mourns on the portrait of Turkey’s legendary triple Olympic gold-medal winning weightlifter Naim Suleymanoglu in Istanbul on Saturday. The Bulgarian-born Suleymanoglu, called “pocket Hercules” who had in late September been admitted to intensive care after suffering liver failure, died aged 50 in hospital in Istanbul. — AFP
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