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Iraqi weightlifter Sawara Mohammad (L), Iraq's only weightlifting competitor in this year's Beijing Olympics, trains at a gym in Arbil, 350 kilometres north of Baghdad, on June 16, 2008
Wednesday, Jul. 30, 2008

Open quoteThe Iraqi people need hope, and sport gives them a lot of hope.Close quote

  • AHMED TABOUR,
  • head of the Iraqi Cultural and Sports Committee in Switzerland, on the International Olympic Committee's decision to lift a suspension of the nation's Olympic association, which the IOC alleged was not freely elected
Photo: Ali Al-Saadi /AFP | Source: CNN