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Middle Eastern athletes to compete on Olympics refugee team
The refugee team for the Tokyo Olympics will feature competitors from Middle Eastern nations including Afghanistan, Sudan and Syria. The team has 29 athletes competing in 12 sports, including a medallist at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games who left Iran citing institutional sexism. The team, selected by the International Olympic Committee on Tuesday, was drawn from 55 athletes who fled their home countries and got scholarships to train for the Summer Games in a new home country. Kimia Alizadeh is among them five years after she became the first Iranian women to win an Olympic medal. She took bronze in taekwondo at age 18. Alizadeh is based in Germany after she defected

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