Egyptian wrestlers keep vanishing abroad amid a sport in crisis
- Cairo, Egypt – Four days after he disappeared from the Egyptian team camp at the 2026 Under-20 World Wrestling Championships in Slovakia last month, 19-year-old wrestler Ziad Hajjaj Abu Gabal posted a message on Facebook.
- “I don’t want my mother and father to be upset with me,” he wrote on August 29.
- “I did this so I could see myself as a man.
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- Cairo, Egypt – Four days after he disappeared from the Egyptian team camp at the 2026 Under-20 World Wrestling Championships in Slovakia last month, 19-year-old wrestler Ziad Hajjaj Abu Gabal posted a message on Facebook.
- “I don’t want my mother and father to be upset with me,” he wrote on August 29.
- “I did this so I could see myself as a man.
Sources: Al Jazeera