Afghanistan county Marathon Hollywood film shootings Afghanistan county Marathon

Canadian Doc Champions Women Secretly Running Marathons in Afghanistan

Reading now: 260
hollywoodreporter.com

Guinness endurance record-holder Martin Parnell, who ran 250 marathons in 2010 for a charity, recalls the moment he decided to run alongside pioneering women in Afghanistan defying insults and threats to run secret marathons for freedom.

It came in 2015 after Parnell suffered a life-threatening blood clot and facing dark despair one day read an article about Zainab, the first woman to run an official marathon in Afghanistan against local customs. "I got frankly mad that a woman in Afghanistan can't run in the streets, which I take for granted, without being mistreated by men," Parnell tells The Hollywood Reporter.

So he resolved when back on his feet to one day line up alongside Zainab at the Marathon of Afghanistan to support her brave.

Read more on hollywoodreporter.com
The website celebsbar.com is an aggregator of news from open sources. The source is indicated at the beginning and at the end of the announcement. You can send a complaint on the news if you find it unreliable.

Related News

DMCA