Mongolia's “Unbreakable Flower”

Mongolia's Olympic wrestler Battsetseg Soronzonbold (front) fights with her training partner during a daily training session at the Mongolia Women’s National Wrestling Team training centre in Bayanzurkh district of Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, July 1, 2016. Battsetseg Soronzonbold became a national hero in her native Mongolia after winning wrestling bronze at the London Olympics and is determined to turn the medal into gold in Rio next month. Born in a country with a long tradition of wrestling, the 26-year-old Battsetseg, whose name means “unbreakable flower”, is currently training twice a day with about a dozen young men and women in a camp some 45 minutes drive from Ulaanbaatar. The popularity of wrestling in the country of under three million people, sandwiched between Russia and China, is only paralleled by their love for horses, meat and an alcoholic mare's milk concoction called airag. (Photo by Jason Lee/Reuters)
Mongolia's “Unbreakable Flower”
   
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