Brave woman sprinter leads Iraqi Olympics charge

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Brave woman sprinter leads Iraqi Olympics charge

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Iraqi sprinter Dana Abdul-Razzaq has dodged bullets to pursue her love of running, her determination to succeed pushing her to become Iraq's only female athlete at the Beijing Olympics.

Few athletes will have faced the obstacles 21-year-old Abdul-Razzaq has overcome to reach Beijing, from a sniper's bullets to a paucity of adequate training facilities and religious and cultural opposition to female athletes.


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"I'm supposed to have a masseuse, I suffer from muscle spasms every day," she said.

"I should have a doctor do a specific nutrition programme. I feel dizzy right now because my training is so hard and I do not follow a specific diet."
Kind of sounds like she's going into the Olympics with some health issues.
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