VIDEO: Challenges facing Somali athletes in Rio
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Wednesday August 17, 2016 - 11:41:22 in English News by
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Somalia has competed in the Olympics for more than four decades, but for the last three Games, it has sent just a couple of athletes and never won a medal. It's Olympic history is a tragic one.
Ads By GoogleAnd at this year’s games, Somalia’s two athletes are competing despite the most difficult of circumstances back home.
Al Jazeera met with Mohamed Daud Mohamed, a Somali runner, who recounted challenges he faced home and in Rio.
Wednesday, August 17, 2016
Sprinter Samia Yusuf Omar, who ran at the Beijing Games, drowned four years later as a refugee, when the boat she was in, capsized off Libya.
Ads By GoogleAnd at this year’s games, Somalia’s two athletes are competing despite the most difficult of circumstances back home.
Al Jazeera met with Mohamed Daud Mohamed, a Somali runner, who recounted challenges he faced home and in Rio.
Al Jazeera’s Gabriel Elizondo reports from Rio
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VIDEO: Challenges facing Somali athletes in Rio
Somalia has competed in the Olympics for more than four decades, but for the last three Games, it has sent just a couple of athletes and never won a medal. It's Olympic history is a tragic one.