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‘What’s more important, my dream or the women of Afghanistan?’: breakdancer Manizha Talash on her Olympic protest
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The refugee who made headlines at the Games has no regrets about the act that led to her disqualification
When Manizha Talash ended her breakdance routine at the Paris Olympics by wrapping herself in a cape bearing the slogan “Free Afghan Women”, she knew she would be disqualified. “I had been thinking about this for four months, ever since I knew I was going to the Olympics,” says Talash, 21.
“I thought: I’ve got one minute when the whole world’s watching me and I thought, what’s more important, my dream, my life, or women in Afghanistan? I didn’t go there to win, that doesn’t matter to me.”
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