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cristianl/iStock(ATLANTA) Historically, very few African Americans have played polo, but that's changing in Atlanta. "I've never ridden a horse outside of me starting this, let alone actually play polo, so I had to get over my fear of, like, thinking I would get kicked or that I will fall," Gia Tejeda, a junior economics major at Spelman College, told ABC News. "I just feel as though if you can learn how to navigate a horse and really master a sport that you can also, in the same sense, conquer the world, because it takes a lot to ride a horse." Tejeda's three-woman team includes another Spelman student and one from Savanah College of Arts and Design. They're sponsored by Ride to the Olympics, a foundation that exposes urban students to equestrian sports. "We break barriers," Kim Watson, CEO of Ride to the Olympics, told ABC News. "It was almost, like, tear-jerking it to see what it does to their confidence level." The grou
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