Historic Egyptian reception for Olympic champion Feryal Ashraf (video and photos)

Feryal Ashraf.. the holder of the first gold for Egyptian girls in the history of the Olympics.. she trains at a youth center

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On Thursday evening, Egypt received Egyptian Olympic champion Feryal Ashraf, the only gold holder for Egypt in the Tokyo Olympics, and the first woman in the history of Egypt to win a gold medal in the history of participation in the Olympics, amid a large official and popular crowd, where she was received by the Egyptian Minister of Youth and Sports Ashraf Sobhi, as well as The hero Ahmed Al-Jundi, the silver medalist in the modern pentathlon, returned on the same plane.

Al-Matareya area in Cairo prepared to receive the Olympic champion's procession and the open-top bus toured the streets of Cairo until she returned to her area, where thousands gathered to receive her and she was carried on the necks until the early hours of this morning in celebration of the achievement.

In statements to her family to Egyptian media, it became clear that the Olympic champion is training in a youth center, and that she starts training at four in the morning with very simple tools.. and that she is a student at the British University College of Pharmacy with a grant of excellence, and she is the first in her class, and the daughter of a simple family from Fayoum.

As one close to the Olympic champion confirmed: "She finishes training to go out by bus to the university to go back to study, then sleep to start training at the dawn of the new day and so on, day after day, and she also lives in a simple area in Mataria, and they have prepared a popular reception and feast for her." The honor of her return.

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