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THE FASTEST GIRL IN SOMALIA Bonus: Minneapolis
The reporting team visits Somali Olympic legend Abdi Bile in Minnesota where he is training the next generation of Somali runners - runners like Samia...
THE FASTEST GIRL IN SOMALIA Episode 5: The Sea
As Samia attempts to cross the Mediterranean Sea, her Olympic dream collides with the deadly realities of one of the world’s most dangerous migration ...
THE FASTEST GIRL IN SOMALIA Episode 4: Libya
Inside Libya’s brutal migrant underworld, Samia faces imprisonment, extortion, and impossible choices as the Mediterranean crossing draws closer. Lear...
THE FASTEST GIRL IN SOMALIA Episode 3: The Sahara
When Samia realizes living in Ethiopia won’t get her to the Olympics, she begins a dangerous journey north toward Libya and then to Europe. Learn more...
THE FASTEST GIRL IN SOMALIA Episode 2: Nowhere to Run
After Beijing, Samia returns to Somalia where athletes are hunted, sports are banned, and her Olympic dream increasingly puts her life in danger. Lea...
THE FASTEST GIRL IN SOMALIA Episode 1: Nine Seconds
A teenage runner from the East African country of Somalia arrives at the 2008 Beijing Olympics with borrowed gear, little formal training, and a dream...
Introducing: The Fastest Girl in Somalia
Olympian Samia Yusuf Omar will stop at nothing to get to the next Summer Olympics. Running across borders. Running away from authorities. And running ...
THE BETRAYAL OF SHOHEI OHTANI Episode 6: Footnote
One man begins a prison sentence and the other goes on a World Series run, but putting to rest questions about what really happened between these two ...
THE BETRAYAL OF SHOHEI OHTANI Episode 5: The Feds
Encrypted text messages, a trunk full of baseball cards, and a private bank account - federal law enforcement takes us inside their investigation of S...
THE BETRAYAL OF SHOHEI OHTANI Episode 4: The Bookie
Matt Bowyer was running one of the largest illegal sports betting operations in the country when he thought he scored the client of a lifetime. Next...