Woman with One Arm Who Escaped Taliban Wins Bronze in Taekwondo at Paralympics
“It was a surreal moment. My heart started beating fast,” Zakia Khudadadi, 25, said of the moment she “threw my helmet and mouthpiece into the air” after winning against Turkey's Ekinci Nurcihan in the women's taekwondo event at the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games on Thursday. Fox News Reported Hudadadi said she was “smuggled” from Afghanistan, […]
Taliban escapee with 1 arm wins taekwondo medal at Paralympics for refugee team
Zakia Khudadadi won the bronze medal in women's taekwondo on Thursday, becoming the Refugee Paralympic Team's first medallist. The medal marks a major milestone in Khudadadi's long and winding story, which began with her being born without forearms and includes her escape from Taliban-controlled Afghanistan many years ago. Immediately after defeating Turkey's Ekinci Nurcihan in […]
Paris 2024 Olympics day 13: marathon swimming, athletics, taekwondo, diving and more – live | Paris Olympic Games 2024
Important Events Show only important events Please enable JavaScript to use this feature Great Britain’s Matt Hudson-Smith missed out on the 400m gold medal by just 0.4 seconds yesterday, a bittersweet ending made even more so by the fact that he would have been Britain’s first 400m gold medalist since “The Flying Scotsman” Eric Liddell […]