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Bahrain's Kalkidan Befkadu celebrates winning the final of the women's 1500m athletics event during the 2018 Asian Games in Jakarta on August 30, 2018. (Photo by Jewel SAMAD / AFP)
The tiny Gulf kingdom of Bahrain finished joint-top of the Asian Games athletics table with 12 golds -- but not everyone is rushing to congratulate them.
That is because not a single track win at Asia’s regional Olympics would have been achieved without “naturalised” athletes who were born in Africa.
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