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- Country of residence: Palestine
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Zakia Nassar (born 1987 ), from Bethlehem , Palestine , is a Palestinian Olympic swimmer, who represented Palestine at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing .
In a previous comment by her coach, which was reported by the media, Zakia Nassar had faced severe difficulties in training due to her inability to access a swimming pool, as there is no Olympic swimming pool in the Palestinian territories, and there is no budget to support Palestinian Olympic swimmers. After her victory, Nassar commented that she had not received any support from the Palestinian authorities and that she had been afraid of a disastrous performance in Beijing.
Zakia Nassar lives in Bethlehem, and since 2008 she has been studying dentistry at the Arab American University in Jenin .
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