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Paris 2024 Games: Refugee Olympic Team picks GB-based boxer Cindy Ngamba

British-based boxer Cindy Ngamba has been named in the Refugee Olympic Team for the Paris 2024 Games.

Cameroon-born Ngamba, 26, is the first boxer to be selected for the team.

Ngamba moved to the UK aged 10, but cannot compete for Team GB because she does not have a British passport.

“It means the world to me for qualify,” she said.

“I have always worked hard, and we are going to go out there and do our job – we are like one family.”

Ngamba is one of five British-based athletes selected, with Dorsa Yavarivafa competing in badminton and Matin Balsini selected for swimming.

Both were born in Iran, while Afghanistan-born Farzad Mansouri will compete in taekwondo and Ramiro Mora Romero, born in Cuba, is selected for weightlifting.


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