Iraqi windsurfing athletes train hard against headwind of insufficient funding

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Iraqi windsurfing athletes train hard against headwind of insufficient funding

STORY: Iraqi windsurfing athletes train hard against headwind of insufficient funding DATELINE: May 18, 2022 LENGTH: 00:02:26 LOCATION: Baghdad CATEGORY: SPORTS SHOTLIST: 1. various of Iraqi national windsurfing team 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (Arabic): OMAR TALAL, Member of the Iraqi national windsurfing team 3. various of the training 4. SOUNDBITE 2 (Arabic): ANMAR SALMAN, Trainer of the Iraqi national windsurfing team 5. various of the training STORYLINE: With golden sunlight gleaming off the river waves before sunset, Omar Talal was working hard to adjust the boom of his white and red sail towards the wind on the Tigris River through central Baghdad, the Iraqi capital. SOUNDBITE 1 (Arabic): OMAR TALAL, Member of the Iraqi national windsurfing team "It is a nice sport and I loved it, so I started practicing it in 2018, and I participated in the Iraq Championship and won first place in 2020, and again I won first place in 2021 in the windsurfing. My ambitions are to get advanced positions in the upcoming." A

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