Mourad negotiated with her friend’s coach who then asked her to join the karate team. “I told him it’s impossible; I’m in a wheelchair and cannot do karate,” she said. She is currently working on a karate training course and hopes to become the first wheelchair-bound trainer in the world. “I’ve already formed a small team of karate trainees in wheelchairs but I’m hoping to expand it to become the first coach to a karate team for wheelchair-bound players,” she said. The Egyptian Olympic team was selected a one week before travelling, and no one with a local rank was chosen.

Source: Egypt Independent March 22, 2017 14:15 UTC