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Team GB Boxer Qais Ashfaq talks Ramadan

Monday, June 29 2015 by SNTV
  • Intro:

    Ramadan at the European Games.

    Script:

    SOUNDBITE: (English) Qais Ashfaq, TeamGB:

    "Yeah, Ramadan. Obviously you have got fasting in the month of Ramadan and I am here competing and it is important to keep hydrated and keep yourself going. So I am gong to make up for (missing Ramadan) when I get home. I think I miss around a week I miss. So, when I get home I am going to make up for it. What we do is - we give a little bit of money to charity, I think it is about £5 for every fast you miss and I have got to give and I am looking forward to going home - hopefully with a gold medal - but hopefully all the sacrifices…(I) will get something good out of it and make it up when I get home."

    SOUNDBITE: (English) Qais Ashfaq, TeamGB (on support from TeamGB):

    "Yeah definitely, we get a huge amount of support and they understand everything..Ramadan, Eid, all the other little things long the..from region and they always help a to and, like I say, they do anything that they can and the nutritionist helping me out with Ramadan - they do anything they can for me."

    SOUNDBITE: (English) Qais Ashfaq, TeamGB:

    "It helps me leaps and bounds. If you seem me there I am always praying in the ring before I go in, praying in the corner with the round. I am praying before and after. I prayed before I came here..praying for, first of all my family and then obviously victory and keeping my opponents safe, as well as myself. I am going to go back and I am going to pray again: 'thank you' and then…I pray every day, especially when I am here. I pray everyday, even though it has been hard around training and around the competition but I make sure I keep praying and hopefully I am praying for that gold medal."

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