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Iraqi Boxer Preps for Olympics

By Scott Simon
Published July 16, 2004 at 11:00 PM CDT

Najah Ali, 24, will be among a dozen or so Iraqi athletes participating in this year's Olympic summer games in Athens. He is a boxer in the "light flyweight" class. His trainer and mentor is a Houston man named Maurice "Termite" Watkins. NPR's Scott Simon talks with both men about their journey to the Olympics.

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