She kept running under siegeSourced
She trained in wartime Sarajevo and reached the Olympic start line.
Bosnian runner Mirsada Burić was held in a camp during the 1992 war and later released. She trained while navigating shelling and sniper fire, then competed in the women's 3,000 metres at the Barcelona Olympics.
Some races mean more than the finishing place.
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