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A fact from Jamal Valizadeh appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 5 August 2024 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that after Jamal Valizadeh was tortured in Iran, hid for six months, and escaped, he qualified to compete in the Olympics as a member of the Refugee Olympic Team?
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... that Jamal Valizadeh made it to the Olympics as a member of the Refugee Olympic Team after having survived being tortured by the Iranian police and living six months in hiding?
Source: Le Parisien ("JO Paris 2024 : de la torture en Iran à la traversée de la Méditerranée, le rêve olympique de Jamal Valizadeh ... L’Iranien fuit le tribunal révolutionnaire et cette longue peine de prison qu’il redoute. Il file à Téhéran, où il se cache tout en travaillant pendant six mois." [Paris 2024 Olympics: From torture in Iran to crossing the Mediterranean, Jamal Valizadeh's Olympic dream... The Iranian flees the revolutionary court and the long prison sentence he fears. He heads to Tehran, where he hides while working for six months.])