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How Moroccan Paralympian Kassioui beat cerebral palsy and society

With a renewed sense of hope and empowerment, Fouzia El Kassioui is now considering going back to school [Soulaimane Bakbach/Al Jazeera]

Benslimane, Morocco – Under the blazing summer sun, and not worried about the drops of sweat forming on her face contours that quiver involuntarily with Parkinson’s tremors, Paralympics medalist Fouzia El Kassioui devotedly went about her training in the Moroccan town of Benslimane.

She grabbed a silver at the Tokyo Paralympic Games but her journey to the medal in the F33 shot put event was “far from easy”, she says, before adding: “But I did it.”

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