JAKARTA - Joy, happiness and pride radiated from the last group of Indonesian athletes who arrived in Indonesia on Thursday, August 5 this morning. With all their abilities and hard work so far, the athletes have struggled to make achievements at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
However, this happiness was tarnished by body shaming remarks when the athlete's footsteps stepped on the VIP Terminal 3 of Soekarno-Hatta Airport. Yes, that statement was experienced by Nurul Akmal, an Indonesian weightlifter when he was greeted directly by Menpora Zainudin Amali.
In addition to Nurul, in the last group there were Greysia and Apriyani, bronze winner of the men's singles badminton branch Anthony Sinisuka Ginting, bronze winner of weightlifting Rahmat Erwin Abdullah. Also seen were runners Lalu Muhammad Zohri, Alvin Tehupeiory and shooting athlete Vidya Rafika Toyyiba and the Indonesian team's Chef de Mission Rosan P. Roeslani, coach and member of the Indonesian NOC.
The body shaming remarks were uploaded by the Twitter account @picture_play as quoted by VOI from Djawanews, Thursday evening. Someone shouted 'The skinny one' when Nurul Akmal entered the VIP room and took flowers.
It is not yet known whether Nurul Akmal heard the screams. But at that time, there was no exaggerated response from him.
Nurul Akmal kept smiling serving the photo session. This account denied this incident. Even if the context is a joke. Moreover, Nurul Akmal has fought hard to be able to participate in the Olympics.
"Sis Amel is a weightlifter who competes to lift hundreds of kilos to win to bring the nation's name. She's been training for years for that," continued this account.
The body shaming joke that was thrown at Kak Amel (Nurul Akmal), an Indonesian weightlifter, when he arrived in Soetta last night, originally made In the 13th second "The skinny one" Sis Amel might be cute, but if we hear it directly, maybe Will stick right away. pic.twitter.com/LE49o6i22s
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It is not clear who shouted like that. However, this video has been widely commented on by many people as well. They also criticized the action of body shaming.
"You don't need to be slapped... tell me to hold the iron as heavy as Amel picked up yesterday. *then throw it*" wrote @ibura****
"I want to twist my mouth" @han_alist****
"That's what keeps you from lifting 140 kg of weight or not?" write @git****
"I want to comb his mouth" said @ever****
"Take a peek at it, hard ges, pls whoever is there," @hondo****
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