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Podcast: How To Fail With Elizabeth Day
Episode: S12, Ep4 How to Fail: Ramla Ali
Description: [TW: discussion around suicide]
This week's guest, Ramla Ali, is the first Somali boxer ever to compete at the Olympic Games. Ramla was born in Mogadishu, shortly before the outbreak of a brutal civil war. After her eldest brother was killed by a grenade while playing in the garden, the family embarked on a perilous journey to leave - first to Kenya, where they survived on Unicef food rations, and later to the UK where they claimed asylum.Â
In London, Ramla first took up boxing to lose weight while a teenager, and tried to keep i...