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Azerbaijani karate fighter takes Olympic silver

Baku, August 6, AZERTAC

Azerbaijani karate fighter Rafael Aghayev has won a silver medal at Tokyo 2020 Olympics.

He lost to Italian Luigi Busa in the men`s kumite -75kg gold medal bout.

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