a moment that those records would not be broken again for almost a0 years? right. when i broke the records in 1988 and no, it did not occur to me that they would be there well, i don t want to say forever, but would i like for them to be there forever? yes. but, anyway, i knew when i left the sport, i wanted to give my all. i didn t want to come back and say, oh, if i coulda, shoulda, woulda. so, when i left, i left knowing that i have given all i could give. you competed in the heptathlon. most olympians go in for one sport. you went in for seven. what s also remarkable about you is how many olympics you attended as an athlete, how many olympics you competed in. my first olympics was in 84. i got the silver medal in the heptathlon, which motivated me to really not to underestimate myself or my team and my coaches because i had never been injured before and i was dealing with an injury in 84 and it got the best of me mentally. and so, i left those games with, you kno
for almost a0 years? right. when i broke the records in 1988, no, it did not occur to me that they would be there. well, i don t want to say forever, but would i like for them to be there forever? yes. but anyway, i knew when i left the sport, i wanted to give my all. i didn t want to come back and say, oh, if i could have, should have, would have. so when i left, i left knowing that i have given all i could give. you competed in the heptathlon. most olympians go in for one sport. you went in for seven. what s also remarkable about you is how many olympics you attended as an athlete, how many olympics you competed in. my first olympics was in 84. i got the silver medal in the heptathlon, which motivated me to really not to underestimate myself or my.my team and my coaches because i had never been injured before and i was dealing with an injury in 84 and it got the best of me mentally. and so i left those games with, you know, god bless me to make another olympic team, i
report. i m wolf blitzer let s are in the situation room. thanks very much for watching erin burnett outfront starts right now to attack her personally. is he now just betting that she s going to be on the top of the democratic ticket. and also tonight summer camp in north korea, we ve got one student s story about what kim jong un s loyal followers did as they tried to bring watch him. it s an incredible story. he speaks to cnn. let s go outfront and good evening. i m erin burnett outfront tonight. we begin with the breaking news, a ninth house democrat just calling on president biden to withdraw from the presidential race. that democrat congressman earl blumenauer of oregon, in a statement, he writes, this is not just about extending his presidency, but protecting democracy. while this is a decision for the president and the first lady, i hope they will come to the conclusion that i and others have president biden should not be the democratic presidential nominee. and jus
country. two decades after they were driven from kabul by u.s. and nato troops in the wake of the 9/11 attacks on new york and the pentagon. the collapse of the western-backed afghan government was part of the big unpleasant surprise. afghan president ashraf ghani quickly fled. the afghan flag has been lowered and devastating images are emerging from the capital city. thousands of people swarmed the tarmac hoping to flee on a departing u.s. military plane at kabul airport, while others clung to the side of the plane. it s among these scenes of chaos that president biden today made his first comments on the crisis since the fall of kabul on sunday. i stand squarely behind my decision. we were clear eyed about the risks. we planned for every contingency, but i always promised the american people that i would be straight with you. the truth is this did unfold more quickly than we had anticipated. so what s happened? afghanistan political leaders gave up and fled the country. t
it sounds funny when i say it now, but. ..every now and then on a game show you d have, like, a brown person come on. and that was a moment for my family. we were like, come, come, come, there s like some indian guy on here, you know. all i remember now is he was just brown. that was good enough for us, right? ifeel like being bengali and bangladeshi, it s almost seen as at the bottom. we re like a minority within a minority. being a bangladeshi woman, that stopped me achieving certain things. we as a community forget the power we have. in the year when bangladesh turns 50 years old, i m going to show you what it means to be british bangladeshi in 2021. look here with ali official. let s go! and how the young generation of british bangladeshis are changing things up. yeah, moments like that make me feel, like, ok, ali, maybe you re doing something right. maybe you re doing something right. typically, when people think of british bangladeshis, they may think of, like, east