Find out how Zakia Khudadadi's historic win for the Refugee Paralympic Team honors Afghan women, and what the win means for her.
Zakia Khudadadi just won the first ever medal for the Refugee Paralympic Team, and she did it for Afghan women. Khudadadi, a Taekwondo fighter, won Bronze in Paris. Khudadadi fled her native Kabul in 2021 after the Taliban recaptured Afghanistan's capital city. Initially, CNN reports that Khudadadi was in hiding from the Taliban, forced to pause her training for the 2021 Tokyo Paralympics .
I am competing for a cause bigger than myself,' Khudadadi told CNN before her win. 'I am here to battle for Afghan women and to show that even in the face of war, that we are strong and cannot be silenced.” At the Olympics, Manizha Talash, a breakdancer competing for the Refugee Team, was disqualified for wearing a cape made from a burqa that said “Free Afghan Women.
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