The Story Behind Olympic Weightlifter's Dance Moves

''Olympic Athlete David Katoatau has taken to the world stage to demonstrate the plight of his country of Kiribati as rising sea levels threaten to destroy it. Despite only placing 6th in the Olympic Weightlifting competition, the athlete performed this dance in Rio to bring attention to the World the implications of climate change.

"I want people to know more about us so I use weightlifting, and my dancing, to show the world." Katoatau explains, "I wrote an open letter to the world last year to tell people about all the homes lost to rising sea levels. I don't know how many years it will be before it sinks".

Katoatau performs this dance to bring the plight of his country to a global audience. The message behind this dance is sinister in it's reality; that of decreased sanitation, soil erosion and contaminated drinking water due to rising sea levels...''

by FLORENCE FALKINER

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