Fifteen-year-old Hoda lifts weights at a gym in Sadr City on September 20, 2012.
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( Ahmad Al-Rubaye, AFP/Getty Images ) A conservative, Shiite-majority area of Baghdad serves as the unlikely base for Iraq's first female national weightlifting team, which is due to compete in Morocco on September 27. |
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