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AAP Sports News (Australia)
07-08-2008
Wre: Main Australian wrestling hopes

BRISBANE, AAP - Australian wrestling's Olympic hopes:

ALI ABDO

Age: 27

Height: 169cm

Weight: 77kg

Lives: Melbourne

Event: 74kg freestyle

What began as child's play - literally - has become very serious indeed for Abdo. He
first got the competitive urge rolling around the living room floor with older brother
Bilal trying to emulate their hero. But it wasn't Hulk Hogan. The sport runs deep in Abdo's
family with his father Abdul, a wrestler who retired in the late 1980s. By 13 Abdo was
competing seriously. Six years later he made his Olympic debut at Sydney. The elder statesman
of the four-strong ...

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