all ten heats progressed to the next round. Afterwards, Muqimayr stated, "I felt a little scared because all the world was watching me. But during the warm-ups the other athletes told me they understood the difficulties I have faced to get here and they encouraged me. In the stadium, I heard a lot of cheering "Robina! Robina!" and that made me feel good." She represented Afghanistan again at the 2008 Beijing Games. Men Women Boxing Basharmal Sultani was 19 years old at the time of the Athens Summer Games and was making his only appearance at an Olympic Games. He received a wild card invitation to participate in the Games from the IOC after failing to attain an automatic qualifying spot with his third-place finish in the Asian qualifying rounds for the welterweight category. Sultani was drawn to face Mohamed Hikal of Egypt in the Round of 32 on 15 August at the Peristeri Olympic Boxing Hall. He lost the match 12–40 on points and therefore that was the end of his competition. Although he was defeated, Sultani was applauded by the small crowd of spectators and said of his participation in the Olympic Games to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, "This was a great moment in my life, and it will be the same for other athletes when they compete." Judo Competing at her only Olympics, Friba Razayee was 18 years old at the time of the Athens Olympic Games, and was the first woman athlete to represent Afghanistan at an Olympic Games. She used a wild card from the IOC to qualify for the Games despite the International Judo Federation hesitant in allowing low-ranked fighters participating in the quadrennial event. In 1994, Razayee's family fled Afghanistan when she was nine and stayed in Pakistan for eight years where she became interested in martial arts. Eight years later, she returned to Afghanistan after the fall of the Taliban and took up boxing before switching to Judo. Razayee said she wanted to use the Olympics as a means of changing the perception of sport in Afghanistan, "My fighting is not as important to me as is my participating. I want to show (everyone) that Afghan women have a place in sport and set the example for all of them." In her Round of 32 match against Cecilia Blanco of Spain on 18 August, she lost after 42 seconds without earning one point.