Bulgaria weightlifter wins gold 15 months after a hotel sink fell and severed his Achilles tendon

Paris:Karlos Nasar of Bulgaria won weightlifting gold at the Olympics and broke two world records on Friday, just over a year after a hotel sink fell...

Paris: Karlos Nasar of Bulgaria won weightlifting gold at the Olympics and broke two world records on Friday, just over a year after a hotel sink fell on him and severed his left Achilles tendon.

Nasar was showering the night before an awards ceremony in May 2023 when he reached for shampoo and pressed down, causing the sink to fall out of the wall and onto him.

After undergoing emergency surgery and missing six months, he returned to weightlifting in December and set the clean and jerk world record that he surpassed in this event.

"I believed, and I imagined in my mind to come here after the accident and to win the Olympic title,” Nasar said in Bulgarian through an interpreter.

"It was very difficult because I could not move for months. But I have very strong power to do this.”