{"id":167770,"date":"2024-08-04T16:58:50","date_gmt":"2024-08-04T16:58:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/af.dawatmedia24.com\/?p=167770"},"modified":"2024-08-04T16:58:50","modified_gmt":"2024-08-04T16:58:50","slug":"afghanistans-first-female-olympic-breakdancer-i-want-my-big-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/af.dawatmedia24.com\/?p=167770","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan\u2019s first female Olympic breakdancer: \u2018I want my big dream\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"article-header\">\n<p class=\"article__subhead\"><em>Defiant breaker Manizha Talash says her spot in the Games shows the courage of Afghan girls, that \u2018everyone can achieve their dreams, even if they are in a cage\u2019.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/header>\n<figure class=\"article-featured-image\"><\/figure>\n<div class=\"article-info-block\">\n<div class=\"article-b-l\">\n<div class=\"article-author-name\"><span class=\"article-by\">By\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"article-author-name-item\">Tamara Davison<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"article-dates\">\n<div class=\"date-simple css-1yjq2zp\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"social-share-buttons\">\n<div class=\"update-reading-list\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wysiwyg wysiwyg--all-content css-ibbk12\" aria-live=\"polite\" aria-atomic=\"true\">\n<p>When Manizha Talash saw a video of an Afghan breakdancer on social media in 2020, she didn\u2019t believe it at first. But that moment ended up changing her life, unlocking new possibilities and dreams for the 17-year-old living in Kabul.<\/p>\n<p>Three months later, Talash had summoned the courage to visit the gym where the breakdancers, known as the\u00a0Superiors Crew, trained, hoping to learn from the person she had seen spinning on his head in the video.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere were 55 boys, and I was only a girl,\u201d Talash explained. At first, she was hesitant to do anything more than watch the dancers, but as she got to know the breaking community, her concerns disappeared \u2013 and her determination to pursue the sport increased.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn that gym, gender was not important,\u201d she recalled, speaking fondly of the Superiors Crew. \u201cAt school or in my family, they always told me, \u2018You\u2019re a girl. You can\u2019t do that thing, or that sport, or that job,\u201d she said confidently in perfect Spanish, a language she learned after finding safety in Spain in 2021. \u201cBut within that gym, they always told me, \u2018You can do it. It is not impossible. It is difficult, but it is not impossible.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So she got to work, mastering power moves in training and unlocking a wider understanding of hip-hop culture, as well as her place within this dynamic art form. She did this under the watchful eye of her first coach Jawad Sezdah \u2014 the very dancer she saw in the online video that ignited her passion in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>Four years later, she is now Afghanistan\u2019s first \u201cb-girl\u201d, a term to describe female breakdancers. Sporting short, choppy hair and a streetwear style, her cool and collected demeanour belies the endless hours of work she put in to achieve her dreams.<\/p>\n<p>Now 21, she\u2019s preparing to compete in the Paris Olympic Games, crediting Kabul\u2019s close-knit breakdancing community for helping her get there.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3084746\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3084746\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-arc-image-770 wp-image-3084746\" src=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/2024-06-11T132604Z_967943901_RC2Z88A0OHUT_RTRMADP_3_OLYMPICS-2024-BREAKDANCE-REFUGEE-TEAM-1722440423.jpg?w=770&amp;resize=770%2C540&amp;quality=80\" alt=\"Afghan refugee and Breaking athlete Manizha Talash practices for the Paris 2024 Olympics where the sport will make its Olympic debut as coach David Vento looks on, in Madrid, Spain, June 11, 2024. REUTERS\/Violeta Santos Moura\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3084746\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Afghan refugee and breaking athlete Manizha Talash practises for the Paris 2024 Olympics as coach David Vento looks on, in Madrid, Spain, on June 11, 2024 [Violeta Santos Moura\/Reuters]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2 id=\"rocky-road-to-the-olympics\">Rocky road to the Olympics<\/h2>\n<p>But it hasn\u2019t been an easy journey to the Games.<\/p>\n<p>The breakdancing gym in Kabul came under attack multiple times, in a country grappling with political and cultural churn where the role of women in public draws particular scrutiny.<\/p>\n<p>A car bomb exploded outside the venue and in a separate instance, police detained a would-be suicide bomber. The dancers were left with few options when the club eventually closed over security concerns.<\/p>\n<div id=\"article-newsletter-slot\">\n<div class=\"sib-newsletter-form general-style\" aria-label=\"Newsletter signup Widget\">As a female breakdancer, Talash also started receiving death threats. That was when she decided to change her name \u2014 Talash, the name she adopted, is a Persian word for \u201cstriving\u201d \u2014 to protect her loved ones from potential danger. \u201cI was only afraid for my family,\u201d she calmly explained, maintaining the death threats wouldn\u2019t stop her from achieving her dreams.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Then things got worse. In 2021, the Taliban regained control of Afghanistan, bringing with them a controversial new set of crackdowns on women\u2019s rights.<\/p>\n<p>Talash didn\u2019t wait for the Taliban to outlaw\u00a0music\u00a0and\u00a0girls\u2019 education\u00a0or strip away their freedom to\u00a0visit parks, fairs, and gyms. With her breakdancing dreams no longer tenable, she fled across the border into Pakistan, taking her 12-year-old brother with her.<\/p>\n<p>The following year is one that the Olympian said she longs to forget. Unable to train, separated from her mother and stranded without a passport, she was forced to wait for her case to be processed so she could leave Pakistan for Europe.<\/p>\n<p>She was eventually granted asylum in Spain, and found time to sporadically dance while adjusting to her new life and working in a hair salon in the small northern town of Huesca. It was Talash\u2019s friends who refused to let the breakdancer give up hope, desperately reaching out to contacts and sharing Manizha\u2019s story in the hopes of catching the attention of prominent sporting organisers. They were successful.<\/p>\n<p>Once the Olympic Refugee Foundation caught wind of Talash\u2019s story, her trajectory to sporting stardom took off.\u00a0 While it was already too late to register for qualifying breaking events that ensure an athlete\u2019s spot in the Olympics, her story of resilience captured the attention of the IOC executive board who offered her a spot on the Refugee Olympic Team. Talash headed to Madrid, embarking a gruelling six-day-a-week training programme and setting her sights on one of the world\u2019s biggest sporting events: the Olympic Games.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3084824\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3084824\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-arc-image-770 wp-image-3084824\" src=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/8618810-1722441927.jpg?w=770&amp;resize=770%2C513&amp;quality=80\" alt=\"epa09005705 Manizha Talash (C), a 18-year-old Afghan girl, practices break dancing during a training session in Kabul, Afghanistan, 05 February 2021 (issued 12 February 2021). A group of young Afghan boys and girls founded a Breaking (breakdance) club a year ago in Kabul, braving all social and security challenges and threats to professionally promote breakdancing in Afghanistan. The club has 40 members, of whom six are female, and gather three times a week to practice the acrobatic moves, including headspins, that are hallmarks of breaking dancing. Based on the Afghan social norms and conservative culture, girls are strongly prohibited to do sport with men, but some girls dared to join the Breaking club. Breaking also called breakdance, B-Boying, or B-Girling is a style of street dance, invented in the 1970s in the United States, was among four sports, along with skateboarding, sports climbing, and surfing, that the International Olympic Committee agreed recently to add to the Paris Games in 2024, in an effort to attract a younger, more urban audience. EPA-EFE\/HEDAYATULLAH AMID\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3084824\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">18-year-old Manizha Talash practises breakdancing during a training session with her club in Kabul on February 5, 2021. Six of the 40 members of the club were female [Hedayat Ullah Amid\/EPA]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2 id=\"chasing-olympic-gold\">Chasing Olympic gold<\/h2>\n<p>As a competitive sport, breakdancing is referred to as \u201cbreaking\u201d, and it\u2019s one of four new events debuting at this year\u2019s Olympic Games in Paris. Over two days, starting on August 9, 16 b-girls and 16 b-boys will go head-to-head in solo battles, competing for judges points in the pursuit of winning gold.<\/p>\n<p>The competition starts with a round-robin phase, after which winners advance on to quarterfinals, semifinals and the finals across five gruelling hours. During each battle, judges score the breakdancers on a number of skills including musicality, vocabulary, originality, technique and execution. Across the high-stakes tournament day, breakers have just 60 seconds to demonstrate their routine during the throwdown, the term for a best-of-three battle.<\/p>\n<p>Talash will make history, competing under the name \u201cB-girl Talash\u201d, when she becomes the first athlete to compete for the Refugee Olympic Team in breaking at this year\u2019s Summer Games, just three years after being forced to flee her home.<\/p>\n<p>Between 1999 and 2002, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) banned Afghanistan over the country\u2019s discrimination against women. Entry was later reinstated, but political turmoil in recent years has cast uncertainty over the country\u2019s future Olympic participation. This year will mark the first time under Taliban control that\u00a0six Afghani athletes will be permitted to compete in the games. The athletes will compete under the\u00a0flag\u00a0of the old Afghan government, in part because the Taliban isn\u2019t recognised by the international community.<\/p>\n<p>The decision to allow Afghanistan to send athletes to the Olympics has prompted concern from some, with the country\u2019s first Olympic athlete Friba Rezayee calling on the IOC to ban Afghanistan from the games over their human rights record, saying it was \u201cdangerous.\u201d It\u2019s since been confirmed the Taliban won\u2019t be attending the games, and the team\u2019s appearance has been\u00a0touted\u00a0as a \u201csymbolic\u201d move.<\/p>\n<p>As a refugee living in Spain, Talash couldn\u2019t be part of the Afghanistan team, and had to find an alternative route to the Olympics. For most refugee athletes, it\u2019s unsafe to return to their home countries and compete for their national teams. The\u00a0Refugee Olympic Team, which started with the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio, selects athletes based on their sporting level and refugee status, making it possible for them to compete.<\/p>\n<p>The size of the Refugee Olympic Team has grown over the last three Summer Games, mirroring the escalating global refugee crisis. \u200b\u200bFor the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics, the refugee team comprises 36 athletes from 11 countries, and involves 12 sports.<\/p>\n<p>This year, the IOC is\u00a0championing\u00a0a \u201c1 in 100 Million\u201d campaign to raise awareness of refugee athletes who are representative of the world\u2019s 100 million displaced people.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3084760\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3084760\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-arc-image-770 wp-image-3084760\" src=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/2024-06-11T132716Z_1514592198_RC2Z88AKPWIL_RTRMADP_3_OLYMPICS-2024-BREAKDANCE-REFUGEE-TEAM-1722440820.jpg?w=770&amp;resize=770%2C541&amp;quality=80\" alt=\"Afghan refugee and Breaking athlete Manizha Talash strikes a move during a training session for the Paris 2024 Olympics where the sport will make its Olympic debut, in Madrid, Spain, June 11, 2024. REUTERS\/Violeta Santos Moura\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3084760\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u2018B-girl Talash\u2019 strikes a move during a training session for the Paris 2024 Olympics where the sport will make its Olympic debut [Violeta Santos Moura\/Reuters]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2 id=\"hope-for-a-better-future\">Hope for a better future<\/h2>\n<p>For Talash, being at the Olympic Games is already an immense triumph. But, medals are also on the line and the Refugee Olympic Team hopes this could be the first year they win gold. As a relative newcomer to the competitive breaking landscape, Talash faces stiff competition from a number of award-winning b-girls. There\u2019s a close contest for gold predicted among Japan\u2019s b-girls Ayumi Fukushima and Ami Yuasa, as well as Lithuanian world champion Dominika Banevic and China\u2019s Liu Qingyi (known as 671).<\/p>\n<p>Talash will also represent the voices and dreams of women in Afghanistan when she takes to the world stage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m here, it\u2019s not because I\u2019m afraid of the Taliban or it\u2019s because of my life, no,\u201d the athlete said defiantly. \u201cI want my big dream; I want to do something for the Afghan girls.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After competing in her first Olympic Games, Talash also plans to kick-start a clothing line that draws inspiration from her home country and could even support women who are otherwise unable to work.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have a lot of plans for girls who are in Afghanistan,\u201d she said. \u201cIf you can\u2019t work outside, you can work at home, and you can help me make clothes here. So, I have many plans.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Talash also remains optimistic about Afghanistan\u2019s future and even hopes to return home and compete for her own country one day. \u201cI think the future of Afghanistan can also be like other countries,\u201d she added. \u201cIf the Taliban leaves, I\u2019ll go. I would like to return to my country,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Like other Afghan voices involved with this year\u2019s Olympic Games, Talash is determined that Afghanistan\u2019s women and girls remain at the forefront of people\u2019s minds.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPlease, do not forget the girls who are in Afghanistan,\u201d she urged, adding: \u201cMy participation in the games shows the courage of Afghan girls, which means everyone can achieve their dreams, even if they are in a cage.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3093100\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3093100\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-arc-image-770 wp-image-3093100 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/The-2024-Refugee-Olympic-Team-Manizha-4th-from-left-bottom-row-Credit_-%C2%A9-IOC-1722703251.png?w=770&amp;resize=770%2C584&amp;quality=80\" alt=\"The-2024-Refugee-Olympic-Team-Manizha-4th-from-left-bottom-row-Credit_-\u00a9-IOC\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3093100\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The 2024 Refugee Olympic Team. Talash is on the bottom row, fourth from the left [Courtesy of the IOC]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-source\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Source:\u00a0Al Jazeera<\/div>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/af.dawatmedia24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/arrow-down-2.png\" width=\"155\" height=\"139\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defiant breaker Manizha Talash says her spot in the Games shows the courage of Afghan girls, that \u2018everyone can achieve their dreams, even if they are in a cage\u2019. By\u00a0Tamara Davison When Manizha Talash saw a video of an Afghan breakdancer on social media in 2020, she didn\u2019t believe it at first. 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