TORONTO — A judo athlete who trains in Toronto has been named to the Olympic refugee group for the Paris Video games. Nigara Shaheen was amongst 36 athletes from 11 totally different international locations launched by the Worldwide Olympic Committee on Thursday.
TORONTO — A judo athlete who trains in Toronto has been named to the Olympic refugee group for the Paris Video games.
Nigara Shaheen was amongst 36 athletes from 11 totally different international locations launched by the Worldwide Olympic Committee on Thursday.
The IOC first entered a refugee group within the 2016 Olympic Video games in Rio to characterize hundreds of thousands of displaced folks on this planet.
Shaheen, 30, is from Afghanistan and grew up in Pakistan. She is going to compete in her second Olympic Video games
She moved to Toronto to coach and attend school after competing for the refugee group in Tokyo in 2021 within the girls’s girls’s 70-kilogram class.
“Paris 2024 is essential as a refugee athlete, particularly with the present world scenario,” Shaheen stated Thursday in a press release. “It’s a probability for us to show that refugees could be an asset too and I’ll put it to use to the fullest.”
She is amongst seven refugee athletes in Canada hosted by the Canadian Olympic Committee.
“An Olympian who stands up for what she believes in, Shaheen can also be a decided and spectacular advocate for ladies’s rights,” COC president Tricia Smith stated.
“Her inspiring journey from Afghanistan to Canada provides hope to others and is a testomony to resilience and the transformative energy of sport.”
This report by The Canadian Press was first printed Might 2, 2024.
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