REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA - Indonesian Chef de Mission for Olympics 2012, Erick Thohir, says that weightlifting will have a foster father as its achievement in the Olympics surpassed badminton. He makes sure that having foster father will build a better managed weightlifting.

"Some company and entrepreneur will foster weightlifting, for sure," Erick said on Saturday, without mentioning any further.

He added that other branches than badminton must be encouraged to win gold medal in Olympics. Weightlifting won silver and bronze medals for Indonesia in London Olympics 2012. While the most favorite sport, badminton, failed to steal any medal.

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