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She would confiscate my doboks (the white outfit, editor's note), I would secretly buy them back with my own money.

— Abdoul Razak Issoufou

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In Africa, people fight in the street. You have to be the strongest. Even among children, anything goes. But I tell young people that they should fight on the tatami and not in the street.

When I won medals, I hid them so my mother wouldn't see them.

When I won the silver medal in Rio, I thought of my parents," who died when he was 12 (his father) and 17 (his mother). "They always believed in me and said I would succeed in life.

I used to take his children to taekwondo. Since I often got into street fights, he thought it best if I did it too, but on the condition that it remained secret.

I lost focus. I was happy to have won the medal. A mistake, I was young.

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