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Podcast: North Star with Ellin Bessner
Episode: How billionaire Sylvan Adams helped rescue Afghan’s women cyclists
Description: It sounds like it could be a movie—and maybe, one day, it could become one.
In late August, just before the United States pulled out of Afghanistan, an effort began to save some of the athletes on the Afghan women’s national cycling team from the impending Taliban takeover.
This mission was partly spearheaded by Sylvan Adams, a Canadian-Israeli billionaire with a passion for cycling. After moving to Israel in 2015, Adams helped found the country's first professional cycling team, called "Israel Start-Up Nation", which has competed globally. Adams personally paid for the rescue of the...