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OlymPicks: Iran s Paralympic Winter Athletes Given Cold Shoulder, Japan Turns Down Chinese Vaccine Offer Mar 17, 2021 4:30 pm | 1 comment | 197 reads In OlymPicks, we highlight news, gossip, and developments regarding the buildup to Beijing s 2022 Winter Olympics. Iranian Paralympic athletes forced to chart their own course Although Iran officially made its Paralympic Winter Games debut at Nagano in 1998, it wasn’t until the PyeongChang games two decades later that the country sent more than one athlete to compete. Back in the early days, the responsibility of representing the country fell squarely on the shoulders of Para alpine skier Sadegh Kalhor, however, today, the honor is split between three Para snowboarders – Puriya Khaliltash, Hossein Solghani, and Sedigheh Rouzbeh – and two Para cross-country skiers, Aboulfazl Khatibi Mianaei and Farzaneh Rezasoltani. Unfortunately, in a story akin to

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