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I wanted to do something different for my country, that?s why I chose swimming,? he said.
?Everybody, every day you wake up in Ethiopia, you run. But I didn?t want to run, I wanted to be a swimmer. It didn?t matter where I finished.?
However, some have suggested he only qualified for the Olympics because of family connections. The President of the Ethiopian Swimming Federation, Kiros Habte Kinfe, shares the athlete?s surname. <<< :kii: :plzstop: :plzstop: :plzstop: :plzstop:
Ethiopia: not a swimmers? country The Ethiopian swimmer told the Mail Online he was hurt by the comments about his body, and had gained weight after being injured in a car crash. ?They have used dirty language against me and called me fat and a big man and a whale,? he said. ?I know my body is fat, but I will lose the weight and when I go to Canada for the World Championships? I will show them.
Ethiopia is not a swimmers? country and I have not trained in an Olympic size pool. ?[Other competitors] were swimming 47 seconds times and I had never done that. So how could I have won gold??
Read more at: https://inews.co.uk/essentials/sport/olympics/robel-kiros-habte-ethiopian-swimmer-overweight-jibes/
Come thru King :plzstop: