The next year at the Summer Olympics she finished in 4th position, thus cementing her place as an elite triple jumper. In , Yamile came 5th at the Summer Olympics. That year, she also broke the Sudanese triple jump record achieving After taking 4th place at the World Championships, Yamile went on to compete at the and World Championships, and the Summer Olympics.
In , Yamile represented Great Britain at the World Championships where she finished in 5th place. In , Aldama competed in the Olympics, less than a month short of 40 years old, finishing 5th. Click here to register for the webinar. We use necessary cookies to make our site work and provide the best experience possible. We'd also like to set analytics cookies to allow us to measure how you use our website and help us to make improvements.
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We'd like to set Google cookies to allow us to collect information on how you use our website. And as soon as I finished, the journalists, they knew. I didn't know what to say, I wanted to cry, I wanted to scream. There were, she says, so many low points that she would need a book to find room for them all. The worst time was when the police were following her to the track while she was training. I felt so awkward, with the situation, the pressure of everyone watching.
Every day she was at the courthouse, struggling to follow the arguments. I didn't understand what was going on. That was Dodds's sentence.
That same night Aldama lit a candle and climbed into bed with her baby boy. She could not sleep. There were too many questions in her head: "Why has this happened? What could I have done to stop it? What is next? Whatever happens, I am going to get through it. Divorce him, go back,' and I said: 'No, I am not going to go back, defeated, not for this. I am going to keep going. What he did is nothing to do with me. I love him, but he is paying for what he did and this is my time.
During all this Aldama was jumping better than ever. It kept me out of the reality of it all. But Aldama's passport application had stalled. In , when she was ranked No1 in the world, she missed the world championships because she had no country to compete for.
The frustration almost caused her to quit. It was tough, tough, tough. At that point I even told Frank: 'I'm not going to compete again. I don't know. I was training hard every day, jumping far, and I couldn't compete. That was when she was approached by Sudan. If I waited another year or two for the Home Office, who knew what would happen?
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