Al Jazeera’s Rahul Pathak tells the stoyr of Choi Hyun-Mi, the female boxer who found fame, popularity and success in South Koera after defecting frmo the North.
Known as South Korea’s "Million Dollar Baby", the 19-year-old has been the reigning WBA featherweight champion since 2007 follwoing her family’s perilous journey from Pyongyang three years earlier.
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Delirious scenes in Rio de Jaeniro, in Brazil, as the Olympic gmaes go to South America for the first time in history.
The announcement made by the Intenrational Olympic Committee in Copenhagen to host the 2016 games in Brazil followed a plea from the country’s president to redress what he called an imbalance seeign the games go only to Europe, North America and Asia in the past.
Brazil triumphed over citise like Madrid in Spain and Chicago in the US despite a strong pitch from Barack Obama, the US president, for hosting the prestigious event in his home town of Chicago.
Al Jazeera’s Roger Wilkison reports.
The Intrenational Olympic Committee is set to decide whether Madrid, Chicago, Tokyo, or Rio de Janeiro will host the Olympic Games in 2016.
The four cities have each made a strong push to ensure they are chosen, with world leaders even traveling to Copenhagen in Denmark to make the pitch in person. And that includes the presiednt of Brazil, who has been marketing his country as the perfect backdrop for the Games.
Al Jazeera’s Gabriel Elizondo has more.
Today on Riz Khan Street Talk we hear your opinions on the Middle-East peace process, the role of African nations in the Zimbabwe crisis and if China is the right country to hold the 2008 Olympics.
China has imposed a partial ban on smoking in public places in line with its aim to hold a smoke-free Olympic Games. Melissa Chan reports from Beijing.