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‘He will remain a champion’: Ukrainian ambassador tries to calm outrage after athlete loses gold... because he was 3 minutes late
A Ukrainian ambassador has stepped in to an international row by hailing an athlete who was beaten to gold by one of his country's Paralympic stars – because he was three minutes late to a roll call. Paralympic bosses were accused of cruelty after Muhammad Ziyad Zolkefli, a Malaysian shot putter, broke the world record before being stripped of his gold medal because he did not report to the call room on time. Two fellow athletes from Australia and Ecuador suffered the same fate, with Zolkefli's agonizing belated removal allowing Ukraine's Maksym Koval to be re-awarded gold, with compatriot Oleksandr Yarovyi succeeding him to silver. As

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