Wajdi Bouallegue has a hard time forgetting the day in 2009 when an official of the Tunisian regime entered the hall where he was training and informed him that he was suspended. It was after the gymnast, who represented his country at the 2004 Athens Games and 2012 London Games, was accused of tearing up a picture of then-president Zine Al Abidine Ben Ali that had been hanging on the gym's wall.
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Ilan Goldman


