Olympics: Gazan Paralympian Is Shot Putter; Algerian Imane Khelif Wins Boxing Gold; Activism Silenced
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🗓️ 12 August 2024
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| 0:00.0 | This is Democracy Now, Democracy Now. |
| 0:05.0 | Democracy Now.org, the War and Peace Report. |
| 0:08.1 | I'm Amy Goodman. |
| 0:09.5 | We continue now with part two of our look at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, which held its |
| 0:15.7 | closing ceremony on Sunday. We're joined by Dave Zyran, sports writer for The Nation |
| 0:22.2 | magazine. He just returned from Paris covering the Olympics. |
| 0:27.0 | Shereen Ahmed is with us, senior contributor to CBC Sports who has been covering the Olympics. |
| 0:34.8 | And in Paris, Fediadib is with us, |
| 0:37.2 | representing Palestine as a shot putter |
| 0:40.0 | in the 2024 Paralympics in Paris, the only member of the Palestinian Olympic delegation |
| 0:47.0 | from Gaza. |
| 0:48.0 | He's the only Paralympian athlete from Palestine to compete in the 2024 summer games, which begin at the end of August, |
| 0:58.4 | the Paralympics. |
| 0:59.6 | He's been disabled since he was shot by an Israeli soldier in Gaza City in 2001 and his lost members |
| 1:06.3 | of his family in Gaza killed by the Israeli military since October. |
| 1:14.0 | Zadi, I want to continue with you. |
| 1:16.9 | In part one of our conversation, you talked about being a shot putter from Gaza. |
| 1:22.4 | And I wanted to step back for a moment. |
| 1:24.8 | And if you can tell us what the Paralympics are |
| 1:28.2 | and the significance for you of performing in them |
| 1:32.4 | having been shot more than 20 years ago in Gaza by an Israeli |
| 1:38.1 | sniper? |
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