Afghan female breaking athlete to compete in Olympics with Refugee team
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 23 ส.ค. 2024
- (11 Jul 2024)
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Madrid, Spain - 11 June 2024
1. Various of Manizha Talash, Afghan breaking athlete practicing
2. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Manizha Talash, Refugee Olympic Team, Breaking Athlete:
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"One guy was dancing and spinning on his head. At first I thought it was done with AI or a filter, but after researching a little bit and seeing videos of other people on TH-cam and Google. I wanted to do it, I wanted to learn it. That’s why I went to this club but I saw that there were 55 boys and I was the only girl. So I told myself: ‘Why can’t I do it? Why can’t a girl do this?’ That’s why I started to learn."
3. Various of Manizha Talash, Afghan breaking athlete practicing
4. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Manizha Talash, Refugee Olympic Team, Breaking Athlete:
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"When the Taliban found out, they didn't like that a girl was dancing. Well, I don’t think it is dancing, it’s a sport. And now we can see it is part of the Games. They don’t like girls to dance or practice sports."
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ARCHIVE: Kabul, Afghanistan - 28 May 2023
5. Various of women waiting in queue at food handout
6. Taliban moving women away
7. Girl standing against damaged wall with bullet holes
8. Birds flying
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9. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Manizha Talash, Refugee Olympic Team, Breaking Athlete:
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"Well, now girls can’t do anything. They cannot leave their homes, they cannot study, nothing. They threatened us, they put bombs near our club. We shut down that club but I sometimes trained at home. Until the Taliban came."
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ARCHIVE: Kabul, Afghanistan - 7 June 2023
10. Various of Taliban at checkpoint
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11. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Manizha Talash, Refugee Olympic Team, Breaking Athlete:
"So, I’m here because I want to reach my dream. Not because I’m scared."
STORYLINE:
In the outskirts of Madrid, 21-year-old Manizha Talash is training hard for the Games, which for the first time will include breaking, or, as it's popularly known, breakdancing.
With attitude, Talash prances and swivels on her hands and feet to the beat of hip-hop, swooshing her black and red hair around before striking a pose signaling the end of her performance.
Just months ago, she was working in a hair salon in the town of Huesca.
Talash was among hundreds of Afghans brought to Spain aboard military planes following the return of the Taliban to power in 2021.
Talash first came across breaking at age 17.
She saw a social media video of a man spinning on his head and was skeptical - it must have been fake, generated by AI, she thought.
But the images were real, and she said she soon became obsessed with the sport, scrolling through video after video on her phone.
“I wanted to do it, I wanted to learn it,” she said.
She found a club in Kabul where a dancer from the videos trained and knocked at the door. “There were 55 boys, and I was the only girl,” she said. “I told myself, why can’t a girl do this?”
The urban dance with roots in the Bronx in some ways freed her from the problems facing young women in Afghanistan.
But it wasn’t long before Talash was noticed - international news outlets published stories about the young Afghan woman defying cultural and religious norms.
That was enough to become a target.
“The Taliban don’t like it when a girl dances,” she said, even though breaking is more than that - it's a sport.
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As an Australian, that's the easiest to understand Spanish I've EVER heard
I'm a native speaker of Spanish. She speaks with some grammar errors, but she has definitely achieved a good level of Spanish and that is impressive by itself given how different are Pashto and Dari from Spanish! Hope she has a good experience at the olympics
Useless moves. The sectarian differences in Afghanistan is the problem nothing else.
Raygun you are slightly better than her.
UPDATE: 10AUG24 - "Afghan refugee athlete disqualified from Olympic breakdancing event". Thank god there ARE some rules that are not allowed to be broken.
"Talash displayed the words ‘Free Afghan Women’ on her cape during her routine in the competition’s pre-qualifiers on Friday."
Political slogans and statements are banned on the field of play and on podiums at the Olympics.
End of story.
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It really makes you think. She knew this rule. She worked so hard to get to the Olympics, and then she forfeited it all in exchange for a few moments to ask the world to turn our attention to the humanity and suffering of Afghan women. Speaking up for her people was more important than her own Olympic dreams as an individual. It’s quite a statement.
Yet they do not let Russian and Belorrusians to participate.
Hypocrisy at its finest and if thats the case of countries in war should not be in the olympics then the countries that invaded Iraq should not participate, Saudi Arabia and UAE should not be there after attacking Yemen and I can keep counting.
What rules are broken again?
@@thekevguy9966they can participate like the Afghan girl could, what's your problem?
@@kalinsimovski5081 No because many federations were refusing Russian and Belarussian entry. IOC was ok with it but the sports federations were not.
Breakdancing is in the Olympics? Yet another reason not to watch them. Biggest one is that they let professional athletes into them. Stopped watching the year of the Dream Team.
I used to root for the USA women's soccer team but not anymore after the last World Cup where a lot of the players wouldn't sing the national anthem. Plus I don't really care for a lot of the athletes high and all might attitudes now. They're heads have gotten too big for any sports now!
oh no what ever will they do without the support of “uncle willard”
Garbage
break dance a complete waste of time and nothing to do with akhirah
Break dance is great enjoyable to do and to watch