{"id":390208,"date":"2024-05-03T00:03:08","date_gmt":"2024-05-03T00:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=390208"},"modified":"2024-05-03T01:04:54","modified_gmt":"2024-05-03T01:04:54","slug":"cyclists-incredible-dash-from-war-torn-country-to-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=390208","title":{"rendered":"Cyclist's incredible dash from war-torn country to Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"

A road cyclist fled war in Afghanistan and\ufeff is now set to compete at the Olympic Games<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Amir Ansari was one of 36 athletes from 11 countries named on the International Olympic Committee<\/a>'s refugee team for Paris 2024<\/a> on Thursday night (AEST).<\/p>\n

Ansari was born in Iran but grew up in Afghanistan, before soughting refuge in Sweden. He found a new family and began training with Stockholm Cycling Club.\ufeff<\/p>\n

READ MORE:<\/strong> 'Strong message' as star banned for match fixing<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

READ MORE:<\/strong> 'Body was never so sore': Xerri's warning to NRL<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

READ MORE:<\/strong> Team owners' extreme act to lock out rival fans<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Among the other IOC refugee team\ufeff members with remarkable stories is distance runner Farida Abaroge, who fled Ethiopia at a young age because of safety issues. She bounced between a string of countries and finally settled in France.<\/p>\n

Yahya Al Ghotany, a taekwondo athlete, fled war in Syria with his family and settled in the Azraq Refugee Camp in Jordan.<\/p>\n

\"Road<\/p>\n

Dorsa Yavarivafa, a badminton athlete, fled Iran with her mother at the age of 15,\ufeff getting out because of safety concerns and heading to the UK.<\/p>\n

The chef de mission of the IOC refugee team is Afghanistani \ufeffMasomah Ali Zada, who competed in road cycling at the Tokyo Games in 2021.<\/p>\n

"Having our own emblem creates a sense of belonging and empowers us to also stand for the population of more than 100 million people who share this same experience," Zada said.<\/p>\n

"The team chef de mission who competed in women's cycling at the Tokyo Games. "I cannot wait to wear it proudly."\ufeff<\/p>\n

An IOC refugee team first featured at the Olympics at Rio 2016.\ufeff<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A road cyclist fled war in Afghanistan and\ufeff is now set to compete at the Olympic Games. Amir Ansari was one of 36 athletes from […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":390210,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390208"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=390208"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":390212,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390208\/revisions\/390212"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/390210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=390208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=390208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=390208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}