PARIS : Welterweight Sedia Sanogo grew up just a 20-minute drive from the arena hosting the Paris 2024 boxing tournament, but she has chosen to chase her Olympic dream under the flag of Ivory Coast, the country of her parents.
Sanogo's parents, who migrated to France before she was born, had signed her up for boxing classes when she was 13 so that she could learn to defend herself in a tough neighbourhood. But she chose to run under the flag of Ivory Coast, becoming the African country's first female boxer with Olympic aspirations.
"I'm lucky to have dual citizenship - there must be many women who have to hide, who can't practice the sport, because of the closed-mindedness," she said, adding that she wanted help boost women's access to boxing there.Today, Sanogo is the captain of Ivory Coast's first female Olympic boxing team, training ahead of this month's Olympic qualifier tournament for Africa in Dakar, where only 11 women - and just two in her weight class - can win the ticket for Paris.
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