Eels. Trash. Jellyfish.
Sausan Aishath is casually listing the impediments she occasionally faces while training in the Maldives. Her compatriots have described this at previous Games, but it still takes some digesting. Forget those high-tech pools, she trains in a cordoned-off section of the sea, her skill sandpapered in salt water. In an unequal world, we need reminding that passion has many playing grounds.
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