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                                <title><![CDATA[ Zahid moots triple reward value for national athletes ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Thu, 13 Jul 2023 00:03:00 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ He says the current incentives are not enough compared to the achievements of the national athletes at competitions and meets. ]]></description>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ When athletes bridge the divide between sports and politics ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Tue, 11 Jul 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ Analysts weigh in on how professional athletes can influence their supporters' political opinions. ]]></description>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ UK, 30 others vow support for ban on Russian, Belarusian athletes ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2023 01:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ The move increases the pressure on the International Olympic Committee, which is desperate to avoid the 2024 Paris Olympics being torn asunder by Russia's invasion of Ukraine. ]]></description>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ Malaysian athletes of mixed parentage from overseas may be considered for Paris Olympics ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2022 00:44:00 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ The 2024 Paris Gold Programme Monitoring Committee also lays out other criteria for  athlete selection. ]]></description>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ Australia relocates more Afghan athletes fleeing Taliban rule ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Wed, 17 Aug 2022 01:07:00 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ The Australian Olympic Committee says five Afghan families with 'ties to the Olympic movement' have arrived in Australia in recent months following a 12-month project to bring them to safety. ]]></description>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ Probe after Japanese students given hand sanitiser instead of water during race ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Tue, 10 May 2022 02:36:40 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ Yamanashi's high school sport federation says the sanitiser had been stored in an unlabelled plastic bottle alongside those containing drinking water in a cardboard box. ]]></description>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ From water girl to national mountain biker for young Orang Asli woman ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Mon, 04 Apr 2022 00:00:04 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ Nia Vanessa Suhana is determined to prove her detractors wrong by continuing to succeed not only as an athlete, but in her studies as well. ]]></description>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ US sending large, experienced team to reclaim share of medals in Beijing ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Tue, 25 Jan 2022 01:20:29 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ The US fell far short of their medals target four years ago, bringing back 23, the fewest they have claimed since the 1998 Nagano Games. ]]></description>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ Pushing through fears and diving past the impossible ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Sun, 07 Nov 2021 01:00:54 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ Although physically limited, three young people are determined to prove to themselves and society that they are more than their disability. ]]></description>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ Behind Malaysia’s Paralympic success ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Fri, 03 Sep 2021 00:00:07 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ Sports analyst Dr Pekan Ramli says Malaysia's management of its Paralympic athletes is one of the best in Asia. ]]></description>
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