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Guinea's Fatoumata Yarie Camara, left, and Japan's Risako Kawai compete during the women's 57kg freestyle wrestling match at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Wednesday, Aug. 4, 2021 in Chiba, Japan. Camara is the only Guinean athlete to qualify for these Games. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)
Camara wrestles after Guinea nearly pulled out of Olympics

By Cliff Brunt Aug. 05, 2021 04:52 AM EDT

Freestyle wrestler Fatoumata Yarie Camara, of Guinea, walks in Rome, Italy, where she is training Saturday, July 3, 2021. A West African wrestler's dream of competing in the Olympics has come down to a plane ticket. Fatoumata Yarie Camara is the only Guinean athlete to qualify for these Games. She was ready for Tokyo, but confusion over travel reigned for weeks. The 25-year-old and her family can't afford it. Guinean officials promised a ticket, but at the last minute announced a withdrawal from the Olympics over COVID-19 concerns. Under international pressure, Guinea reversed its decision. (AP Photo/Riccardo De Luca)
Denied ticket over COVID, Guinean Olympian clings to dream

By Gerald Imray, Boubacar Diallo And Trisha Thomas Jul. 29, 2021 02:46 AM EDT

Freestyle wrestler Fatoumata Yarie Camara, of Guinea, walks in Rome, Italy, where she is training Saturday, July 3, 2021. A West African wrestler's dream of competing in the Olympics has come down to a plane ticket. Fatoumata Yarie Camara is the only Guinean athlete to qualify for these Games. She was ready for Tokyo, but confusion over travel reigned for weeks. The 25-year-old and her family can't afford it. Guinean officials promised a ticket, but at the last minute announced a withdrawal from the Olympics over COVID-19 concerns. Under international pressure, Guinea reversed its decision. (AP Photo/Riccardo De Luca)
Denied ticket over COVID, Guinean Olympian clings to dream

By Gerald Imray, Boubacar Diallo And Trisha Thomas Jul. 29, 2021 02:34 AM EDT

Fatoumata Yarie Camara, a Guinean freestyle wrestler scheduled to compete in the Tokyo Olympics, sits at her home in Conakry, Guinea Wednesday July 21, 2021. The West African country of Guinea has reversed an earlier decision to pull out of the Olympics and will send a delegation of five athletes to the Tokyo Games. Minister of Sports Sanoussy Bantama Sow made the announcement Thursday, July 22, 2021 after national and international outcries that followed an earlier declaration that Guinea would not send athletes to Tokyo, blaming the coronavirus and its variants. Camara was one of the five athletes affected by the decision. (AP Photo/Youssouf Bah)
Guinea reverses decision to pull out of Tokyo Olympics

By Boubacar Diallo And Carley Petesch Jul. 22, 2021 08:18 AM EDT