Results tagged “gold”

Benjamin Boukpeti: Picked up the first medal for Togo bronze in the men’s slalom kayak event but the French-born sportsman has only been to Togo once as a child to visit his paternal grandmother! According to Reuters, Boukpeti "only decided to compete for Togo when it became clear he was too old to make it into the far more competitive French team".

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With 276 metric tonnes of gold produced in 2007, or over a tenth of the world's supply, China may now be the world's largest producer of gold, but as Tony Cheng of Al-Jazeera finds out, it will not be the world's largest exporter anytime soon because all that gold is being snapped up by the Chinese at home...