: Cycling: Away from her home in Afghanistan, Masomah Ali Zada continues to race in more ways than one #IndiaNEWS For Afghan refugee cyclist Masomah Ali Zada, it will be a bittersweet moment. For the

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Cycling: Away from her home in Afghanistan, Masomah Ali Zada continues to race in more ways than one #IndiaNEWS
For Afghan refugee cyclist Masomah Ali Zada, it will be a bittersweet moment. For the first time in five years, she will take part in the Afghanistan Women’s Cycling Championships on Sunday, but not in Kabul.Instead, the 26-year-old will race in southwest Switzerland, reunited with dozens of Afghan cyclists who now live in different countries.Since the hardline Taliban returned to power last year and restricted women’s freedoms, Ali Zada says “sport is dead�? for Afghan women.The Taliban have banned women from playing sport, barred women from many government jobs and forbidden secondary school education for girls.But Ali Zada, who has lived in France for the past five years, has not given up and continues to represent her country.A special moment for Ali Zada came last summer when she took part in the Tokyo Olympics where she hoped to be a beacon for women forced to leave their country or to abandon their sporting dreams.She was the first Afghan female cyclist to compete in the games as part of the Refugee Olympic Team.But “the Taliban ruined what I experienced in Tokyl���H[�Q��[�X�H�[���H��[X�Y�[��K�H�[�H��وH�[[Y��]HX]�HX���H����YZ[�]H�HZ[�]HH]�[��[���[�ˋ���XY[ܙH

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