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| August 11, 2008 | Monday | Sha’aban 8, 1429 |
Coventry staying loyal to Zimbabwe
BEIJING, Aug 10: Zimbabwe’s Kirsty Coventry, who won silver in the Olympic 400 metres individual medley on Sunday, said she would never compete for another country.
In 2002 she took up a scholarship at Auburn University, which has to one of the best swimming teams in the US, and despite the economic problems in Zimbabwe she does not intend to copy other African athletes by switching nationality.
“I will not stop representing Zimbabwe,” she told reporters. “It is where I was born, my parents live there and I go back as often as I can and I will never not represent Zimbabwe as long as I’m swimming.”—Reuters
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