Public sports and recreation in Iraq in ten years

Updated:2013-03-29 17:11

(chinadaily.com.cn)

Public sports and recreation got slow but strong development during the ten years' time after the US-led invasion in 2003 in the war-torn Iraqi country.

Public sports and recreation in Iraq in ten years

An Iraqi boy plays in front of flames blocking a street in Baghdad's Shiite Sadr City neighborhood, on May 18, 2004. Residents of Sadr City blocked many roads in the city in a bid to prevent US military vehicles from entering the poor slums. One Iraqi was killed and five wounded in the holy city of Karbala in night-time clashes between coalition troops and the militia of radical Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr. [Photo/icpress]

 

Public sports and recreation in Iraq in ten years

Fifteen-year-old Hoda lifts weights at a gym in Sadr City, on Sept 20, 2012. A conservative, Shiite-majority area of Baghdad serves as the unlikely base for Iraq's first female national weightlifting team, which is due to compete in Morocco on Sept 27. [Photo/icpress]

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