Saturday, February 11, 2012

Hassiba Boulmerka: Defying death threats to win gold

"I remember it well," she says. "It was Friday prayers at our local mosque, and the imam said that I was not a Muslim, because I had run in shorts, shown my arms and my legs. He said I was anti-Muslim."

Boulmerka and her family started to receive death threats, graffiti appeared denouncing her as a traitor and she was forced to move to Berlin to continue her training.


BBC News - Hassiba Boulmerka: Defying death threats to win gold

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