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World Olympic Dreams: From Thames to Tigris

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Four-times Olympic gold medallist Matthew Pinsent travels to Baghdad to meet Haider Rashid and Hamza Hussein, the Iraqi rowers who dream of competing in the London 2012 Olympic Games.

Before travelling to Iraq, Matthew underwent a week of intensive training on a "hostile environments course". Once in Baghdad, he met with the rowers, learned about the hardships they have had to face just to go out training, and finally spent an afternoon with them out on the Tigris river.

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