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Cindy Ngamba started boxing successful Bolton astatine nan property of 15, having moved to nan UK from Cameroon aged 10
British-based boxer Cindy Ngamba has been named successful nan Refugee Olympic Team for nan Paris 2024 Games.
Cameroon-born Ngamba, 26, is nan first boxer to beryllium selected for nan team.
Ngamba moved to nan UK aged 10, but cannot compete for Team GB because she does not person a British passport.
"It intends nan world to maine for qualify," she said.
"I person ever worked hard, and we are going to spell retired location and do our occupation - we are for illustration 1 family."
Ngamba is 1 of 5 British-based athletes selected, pinch Dorsa Yavarivafa competing successful badminton and Matin Balsini selected for swimming.
Both were calved successful Iran, while Afghanistan-born Farzad Mansouri will compete successful taekwondo and Ramiro Mora Romero, calved successful Cuba, is selected for weightlifting.
The Refugee squad was announced by Thomas Bach, president of nan International Olympic Committee (IOC) and nan athletes recovered retired while connected nan unrecorded stream.
Addressing refugees astir nan world, Bach said: "We invited each of you pinch unfastened arms.
"You are an enrichment to our Olympic community, and to our societies. With your information successful nan Olympic Games, you will show nan quality imaginable of resilience and excellence.
"This will nonstop a connection of dream to nan much than 100 cardinal displaced group astir nan world."
A full of 36 athletes person been selected from 15 countries, and will compete successful 12 different sports.
The team's Chef de Mission, Masomah Ali Zada, who competed for nan Refugee Olympic Team astatine Tokyo 2020, added that nan squad "has a chance to animate nan adjacent generation".
The IOC group up nan Refugee Emergency Fund to thief bring refugees into sport, earlier nan squad made its Olympic debut astatine Rio 2016.
