People of Courage: Nafissatou Thiam

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Olympic and world heptathlon champion Nafissatou Thiam was born in Namur, Belgium, 43 mile southeast of Brussels, on August 19, 1994, one of the four children of Bamba Thiam, a native of Senegal who worked as a sculptor and painter, and Belgian citizen Danièle Denisty who was a school teacher and former athlete. Thiam’s parents divorced when she was age two.