At the Olympic Games in London, for the first time in the history of the Olympics, an athlete, who is eight months pregnant, performed. Nur Suriani Mohamad Taibi represents Malaysia, a woman is shooting bullets.
The 29-year-old athlete found out about her pregnancy just a few days after she was officially included in the Malaysian Olympic team. Naturally, the question arose: is it possible to replace it? However, Taibi is one of the best shooters in the Asian region, and it has proven difficult to find an equivalent replacement for her. Doctors and trainers considered that Taibi was completely healthy and in good physical shape, so participation in the Olympics poses no danger to either the woman or her unborn child. They argued that the athlete will participate in competitions in air rifle shooting, and such a weapon produces much less noise when fired and gives less recoil than a firearm. In addition, a special shape was sewn for the pregnant woman.
According to the results of the competition, the Malaysian athlete was able to take only 34th place, but she entered the history of world sports as a participant in the Olympics, performing at the very late stage of pregnancy. Of course, this is not the first time a pregnant woman has participated in competitions of such a high level. But all expectant mothers were at a much earlier date.
Did doctors and trainers have the right to take on such a responsibility? Did the athlete herself act wisely, after all, for women who are at such late stages of pregnancy, doctors strongly do not recommend traveling by air. Moreover, if the flights are so long. Before the start of the Olympics, Nur Suriani Mohamad Taibi answered these questions without hesitation: “My relatives are worried if I can cope. But I don't doubt myself. When there is one more person inside you, you are always in great company. And then she added with a smile: “I haven’t thought about Olympic gold yet. What if the judges think that it was obtained dishonestly, because two people were shooting”.
