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Masomah Ali Zada (C), the first Afghan cyclist participated in the Olympic Games as a member of the International Olympic Committee refugee team, waits behind an Afghan flag on the start line of the 2022 women's road cycling championships of Afghanistan in Aigle, western Switzerland on October 23, 2022. Afghan women cyclists took part in the "Afghanistan Women's Cycling Championships" but not in Kabul as the Taliban have banned women from playing sport, barred women from many government jobs and forbidden secondary school education for girls in Afghanistan. (Photo by VALENTIN FLAURAUD / AFP) (Photo by VALENTIN FLAURAUD/AFP via Getty Images)