SINGAPORE: Maziah Mahusin’s anxious wait is over and her dreams are about to be realised, the 400m hurdler has been granted a universality place at the London Games and will proudly become Brunei’s first female Olympian.
The tiny Southeast Asian country, nestled on the north coast of Borneo in the South China Sea, had said in March they wanted to send Maziah to the Games and break away from a trio of countries yet to take a female athlete to an Olympics.
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