Palestinian athlete Omar Ismail was beaten in last 16 of the men's flyweight taekwondo Wednesday.
PARIS - Palestinian athlete Omar Ismail was beaten in the last 16 of the men's flyweight taekwondo Wednesday, ending the 18-year-old's hopes of winning gold at the Paris Olympics. Fighters from Iran, Israel and Saudi Arabia took to the mat in the Grand Palais, with two athletes from the Refugee Olympic Team also testing their mettle early in the day.
Nor are the two refugee Olympians the only exiles to walk into the ring on Wednesday. Competing under the Palestinian flag, Omar Yaser Ismail was born in the United Arab Emirates to parents from Jenin in the Occupied West Bank. At 18 years old, he is the first Palestinian athlete to qualify for any combat sport at the Olympics. Speaking to reporters ahead of the fights, he said that there was more at stake than whether or not he would be walking away with a medal that day.
As the government cracked down on the protests Tiranvalipour left Iran for Turkey, finally making his way to Italy, where he says he lived in a forest for ten days until some Iranian students found him a sofa to sleep on. After reaching out to the Italian Taekwondo Federation, he managed to win a place among the 36 athletes who would be competing in the Paris Olympics under the flag of the Refugee Olympic Team.
Depending on how these next matches pan out, Nematzadeh could also find herself in the ring against Dina Pouryounes Langeroudi, the second refugee from Iran fighting that day.
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