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RMI athletes to Tokyo Olympics

By Journal on July 2, 2021 Amy Lacost, Bollong Joklur, Colleen Furgeson, Johnathan Jordan, Kabuati Bob, Olympics, Phillip Kinono, Terry Sasser, Tokyo News Archive

In spite of the continued global Covid-19 pandemic and associated travel restrictions, which have already denied several Oceania countries the opportunity to participate in the Olympics, Marshall Islands will have a team at the rescheduled 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games in Tokyo next month. Rio Olympian and recent Lincoln College graduate Colleen Furgeson will again represent […]

Mattie’s record-smashing gold show

By Journal on June 9, 2016 Jenly Tegu Wini, Kabuati Bob, Mack Capelle, Mathlynn Sasser, Mattie Sasser, MIWLF, Terry Sasser, Tia-Clair Toomey, Tony Muller, weightlifting News Archive

Marshall Islands weightlifters Mathlynn “Mattie” Sasser and Kabuati Bob joined over 200 athletes from 19 countries at the 2016 Oceania Weightlifting Championships and Olympic Games Qualification Tournament in Suva, Fiji last month. Mattie set numerous records on her way to winning gold and was honored at the tournament’s closing as the Best Junior Female Lifter […]