INDONESIAN speed climber Desak Made Rita Kusuma Dewi (pic) checks her harness, her brow dripping with sweat and her breaths laboured, gripping the hold and swinging her body upwards to scale a wall in mere seconds.
The 23-year-old is training for this month’s Paris Olympics, where she hopes to add to Indonesia’s meagre tally of gold medals – the country has only ever won eight, all in badminton.
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