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Inspired by Muhammad Ali, meet the judo star who fled civil war conscription in Syria and will now compete at the Paris ...
By Rory Fleming, CNN (CNN) — It’s almost 60 years since boxing icon Muhammad Ali defied his draft order to join the US military in opposition to his government’s involvement in the Vietnam War. “Why should me, and so-called other negroes, go 10,000 miles …