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Afghan women's cycling team
Coverage of Afghan women's cycling team in the Nexus archive.
- Escaping Kabul: the secret operation to exfiltrate the Afghan women's cycling team
The Taliban's seizure of Kabul and imposition of Sharia law threatened the Afghan women's cycling team, prompting a secret operation to smuggle the athletes out of the country. Reporters Matteo Born and Alain Rimbert documented this covert exfiltration effort.