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Women Around the World: The Women of the Olympics Refugee Team · Stuff Mom Never Told You

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  Speaker 1: Hey, this is Annie and Samantha. I don't go to stuff.
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  Speaker 1: I've never told you production of iHeart Radio. Hey Annie,
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  Speaker 1: that's a good question for you. Did you take any
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  Speaker 1: kind of martial arts blowing up? Or did you want to? Uh? No,
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  Speaker 1: I didn't. I wanted to. Oh, I desperately wanted to.
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  Speaker 1: I was quite clumsy and accident brone, as you know.
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  Speaker 1: And I was at my brother's soccer game. But I
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  Speaker 1: like somehow got hurt at his soccer game, and my
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  Speaker 1: parents became a little careful with one they would let
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  Speaker 1: me do, even though they did let me do gymnastics,
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  Speaker 1: and boy did I bust my face on that. I
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  Speaker 1: fell right on that balance. Me I did take it
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  Speaker 1: is not martial arts. But the closest I got was
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  Speaker 1: I did take kickboxing in seventh grade and I took
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  Speaker 1: tai chi. It's okay, have you done any self defense
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  Speaker 1: classes because most of those are like has some jiu
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  Speaker 1: jitsu or judo or in it? Did you do that?
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  Speaker 1: I did? Um? I did do some self defense. And
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  Speaker 1: I have a hilarious story where I was. I was
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  Speaker 1: in uh this like soundproof room and marching band uh
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  Speaker 1: and I was with my best friend and I was
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  Speaker 1: teaching her to get out of a chokehold, but we
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  Speaker 1: didn't realize until like two minutes had passed that everyone
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  Speaker 1: was staring at us to the glass window and I
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  Speaker 1: was like choking my friends to their eyes and I
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  Speaker 1: had to explain everything. It was all good, perfect, but yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it was quite embarrassing. How about you. So I didn't
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  Speaker 1: take it while I was growing up, but I do
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  Speaker 1: have memories of being in Korea. I guess maybe this
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  Speaker 1: is part of our group activities in the orphanage had
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  Speaker 1: doing some taekwondo, which makes a lot of sense because
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  Speaker 1: I actually knew some of the forms and some of
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  Speaker 1: the moves that was practiced, especially when you were a newbie,
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  Speaker 1: like the white belt. But outside of that, I've never
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  Speaker 1: really done it, and I really want to because right
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  Speaker 1: now I'm watching all these TikTok videos. I'm on TikTok
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  Speaker 1: now and all I do is just watch videos of dogs, pets,
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  Speaker 1: people falling and dancing or martial arts. And there's this
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  Speaker 1: one one where this young woman is just going after
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  Speaker 1: these like six ft two men and she's like probably
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  Speaker 1: five ft one, tiny, and I'm like, I want to
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  Speaker 1: do that. She's a badass. But the reason I'm talking
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  Speaker 1: about it is because I wanted to talk about more
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  Speaker 1: Olympics right right, all right, and to keep us continuing
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  Speaker 1: on with this theme in our attempt to stay relevant.
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  Speaker 1: Just kidding and being relevant, of course, means time stamping
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  Speaker 1: might as well do that our episode. So people are
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  Speaker 1: so confused if they are listening to this several years
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  Speaker 1: down the road, today's August six one, which means that
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  Speaker 1: the twenty Olympics, which was postponed from last year, is
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  Speaker 1: going on right now. But we're not talking about results today.
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  Speaker 1: We are going to come back to those for some
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  Speaker 1: of the women who have done some cool things since
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  Speaker 1: our last Women around the World, but for this woman
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  Speaker 1: around the world, we are specifically talking about one team
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  Speaker 1: which was created by the IOC or the International Olympic Committee.
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  Speaker 1: We talked about them in sixteen, the Refugee Olympic Team,
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  Speaker 1: and we are taking a look at the ten women
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  Speaker 1: who are part of this year's team, and a majority
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  Speaker 1: of these women are competing. This is why I thought
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  Speaker 1: about it in judo or taekwondo, and I thought that
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  Speaker 1: was very interesting. Yeah, so yes, the Refugee team was
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  Speaker 1: created in twenty sixteen, after establishing a Refugee Emergency Fund,
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  Speaker 1: which was donated to integrate refugees in sports and um
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  Speaker 1: they were invited that same year to compete in the
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  Speaker 1: Games in Rio de Janeiro and again in the twenty Olympics.
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  Speaker 1: So let's look at the women on the team, starting
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  Speaker 1: with Rose Nethyclakonian um And we're trying our best at
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  Speaker 1: the pronunciations, but apologies if we messed it up. Who
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  Speaker 1: competed and also was the flag bear in the twenty
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  Speaker 1: sixteen Games. Um And was originally born in South Sudan.
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  Speaker 1: And it's now competing in track, which I've been watching
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  Speaker 1: track and I get so into it, and I'm like,
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  Speaker 1: why am I so into this? I don't understand. Those
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  Speaker 1: women are fast, like I look at that and I
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  Speaker 1: watched them like they look like I going at such
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  Speaker 1: an easy pace, but the way they're out like doing
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  Speaker 1: each other, I was like, wow, Wow, I would have
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  Speaker 1: already fallen by now because their their feet and legs
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  Speaker 1: start looking like the cartoon version where it goes into circles.
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  Speaker 1: I know, we just completely digressed. And there's Muna Dook
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  Speaker 1: who's competing in judo, who was a Syrian refugee currently
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  Speaker 1: living in the Netherlands um and by the way, she's
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  Speaker 1: been practicing judo since she was six, and I know
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  Speaker 1: a lot of these people have been practicing it since
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  Speaker 1: a young age. Then there's Dina Parunas langar Uti and
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  Speaker 1: Iranian refugee who has claimed at least thirty four world
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  Speaker 1: ranking medals since twenty fifteen, and she's competing in taekwondo
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  Speaker 1: and what's the first refugee athlete to compete in the
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  Speaker 1: World Taekwondo Championships. Then there's Niara Shahin who is also
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  Speaker 1: com eating in judo and she is an Afghanistan born woman,
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  Speaker 1: a part of the mixed team for judo and currently
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  Speaker 1: living in Russia. There's Angelina Nadai Lohalith who is competing
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  Speaker 1: in the women's fifteen hundred meter race in track. She
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  Speaker 1: was originally from South Sudan and is currently training in Kenya.
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  Speaker 1: And then we have Afghanistan born Masama ali Zada who
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  Speaker 1: is currently living in France and is competing in the
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  Speaker 1: women's road race for cycling this year. Then we have
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  Speaker 1: Kamia al zi Day also competing in taekwondo for the
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  Speaker 1: Olympics and she is an Iranian refugee who has been
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  Speaker 1: competing for a while now, including in the twenties sixteen
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  Speaker 1: Olympics where she made history as being the first woman
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  Speaker 1: to earn a Summer Olympic medal from Iran. And in
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  Speaker 1: sports shooting, we have Luna Solomon, who was born in
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  Speaker 1: Eritrea is currently living in Switzerland where she's been able
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  Speaker 1: to train under gold medalist Nicolo Campriani. Then there's Ustram Mardini,
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  Speaker 1: a swimmer who not only competed in twenty sixteen, but
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  Speaker 1: has continued to train to be a part of the
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  Speaker 1: Olympics as well. Currently she is living in Germany. Mardini
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  Speaker 1: left Syria and has been a force during these current games.
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  Speaker 1: And another judo woman's mixed team member is Assanda Aldas,
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  Speaker 1: another City of native who continues to compete and is
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  Speaker 1: currently being coached by her husband, who are both currently
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  Speaker 1: residing in the Netherlands. And yeah, they have been a
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  Speaker 1: wonderful team. I know Camia alsa Day almost almost got
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  Speaker 1: a bronze she did coming forth in taekwondo when she
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  Speaker 1: was competing. But yeah, it's been a fierce game for
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  Speaker 1: all of them, and they've done a great job competing
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  Speaker 1: this year for sure. For sure, and as of recording,
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  Speaker 1: there's still a couple of days of the Olympics left,
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  Speaker 1: so we'll see what happens in the meantime. Listeners, if
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