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Beating the odds: three Olympic sportswomen on overcoming poverty, mockery – and small swimming pools
The swimmer: Husnah Kukundakwe, Uganda Uganda’s Paralympic swimmer Husnah Kukundakwe at a training session in Kampala. Photograph: Xinhua/Alamy Three years ago Husnah Kukundakwe became the youngest person to compete at the Paralympic Games in Tokyo. At …