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Battling COVID-19 and a tuberculosis diagnosis, Dika Toua is set to make history at the Tokyo Olympics – ABC News

A severe tuberculosis infection left Papua New Guinean weightlifter Dika Toua barely able to walk. But the four-time Olympian…

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One morning in 2013, Papua New Guinean weightlifter Dika Toua threw up blood.
She was training in New Caledonia ahead of the Glasgow Commonwealth Games, and had acquired a particularly severe case of tuberculosis.
It took two weeks in an isolation ward…

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