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@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ Welcome to the Athens project! We are a proxy server for the [Go Modules downloa
 
 See our documentation site [https://docs.gomods.io](https://docs.gomods.io) for more details on the project.
 
->We are looking for people who would like to become core maintainers of this project. Please see [issue #1734](https://github.com/gomods/athens/issues/1734) for more details.
+**We are looking for people who would like to become core maintainers of this project. Please see [issue #1734](https://github.com/gomods/athens/issues/1734) for more details.**
 
 # Project Status