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Sarah Attar (the second girl) actually grew up in Escondido, California (north of San Diego) and is going to Pepperdine. She runs in tanks and shorts and dresses like any other Californian.

She’s just got dual US-Saudi citizenship b/c her dad is Saudi, and she was asked to compete for Saudi so they had a “legitimate” female athlete. It all happened very quickly.

Sarah’s been all over the local news, including that her family was told to have ALL pictures of her removed from the internet from her schools - all previous competition pictures (where she wasn’t covered) including ones where she really wasn’t even truly identifiable - as well as all biographical/family details. They (the family) aren’t sure why it needed to happen, and newer articles are now making it sound like it was their idea, but they made the requests and the schools all accommodated quickly. Of course they can’t as easily get other sources to remove them!

Sarah actually graduated from Escondido High School, the same school Amber DuBois (kidnapped and killed along with Chelsea King, of Poway) went to before her life was tragically cut short by John Gardener.

Anyway, despite what they’re trying to make it seem, Sarah is far from truly Saudi in any real sense of what the KSA would like to make it seem. She’s really a down to earth Californian who got a chance to run in the Olympics because her dad is from Saudi and that gave her enough ties herself to be asked to compete.