"Nobody cares here about religion, " said Poland's Tomasz Adamiec, after his defeat in the men's 73-kilogram competition.
In freestyle wrestling, American Jordan Burroughs defeated Iran's Sadegh Saeed Goudarzi to earn gold in the men's 74-kilogram event.
Gold in the 55-kilogram freestyle category went to Russia's Dzhamal Otarsultanov, who beat Vladimer Khinchegashvili of neighboring Georgia.
Last year, Almonte testified that a Santa Muerte statue prayer card, found with a kilogram of methamphetamine in a couple's car in New Mexico, were "tools of the trade" for drug traffickers to protect them from law enforcement.
Because of this, the actual International Prototype Kilogram (yes, there does only seem to be one in existence) is stored in a vault in Sevres, France, limiting the lay person's ability to determine the actual weight of a kilogram.
"They've received two 20-kilogram bags of rice from some local charities, and that's it, " he says.
Abiomed's AbioCor is silent, portable and weighs only a kilogram, only twice as heavy as a healthy heart.
Ireland's John Joe Nevin and Great Britain's Luke Campbell will battle for the gold in the bantam 56-kilogram event Saturday night after winning through their respective semifinals.
India is the world's largest tea producer, with Assam accounting for about 55% of its 856m kilogram production last year.
Americans largely don't follow judo too closely, but we're told Tomoko Fukumi, the top-seed in the 48-kilogram class, is the Manny Pacquiao of her division before Mr. Pacquiao's upset by Timothy Bradley.
"In the last 10 years it's gotten very, very hard to find nuggets over a kilo, so this (5.5 kilogram) one is extremely rare, " says Kent.
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