If Iraqi sprinter Dana Adbulrazak, 22, was an AFL footballer she would be described as "hard as nails".
With a personal best of 11.7 seconds for the 100m she didn’t qualify for the Olympics but was given a wild card.
Yesterday she recorded a time of 12.36sec, which she was a little disappointed with.
This woman makes the Australian cricket team’s current debate about whether to tour Pakistan over safety concerns seem a complete farce.
During a training session in Iraq a sniper shot her at.
"After it was over, I fainted," she said. "I was back practising half an hour later, but we used the other side of the playing field."
Yes, probably wise to use the other side…
Haidar Nasser Shaheed, 27, also competed for Iraq in the men’s discuss and managed to throw 54.19m.
With a personal best of 59.77m he would probably be a little disappointed with that, but as the Iraq team wasn’t even going to compete because of "political interference" in the selection process he was just happy to be there.
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