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RIO DE JANEIRO -- Hours after making her Olympic debut, Iranian archer Zahra Nemati carried her countrys flag in the opening ceremony.Its the start of a busy couple of months for Nemati in Rio de Janeiro. Shell be pulling double duty and will be back next month for the Paralympics, where shes the defending gold medalist in the individual recurve W1/W2.The 31-year-old Nemati had hoped to represent Iran at the Olympics much earlier in life -- and in taekwondo rather than archery.A car accident as a teenager set the former black belt on a new sporting path after leaving her paralyzed.She picked up archery a few years later simply because, I wanted to do some sport.Nemati started her ambitious journey to a first Olympic medal ahead of Fridays opening ceremony during archerys qualifying round at the Sambadrome. She shot 72 arrows and accumulated a score of 609 -- good for 49th position. The results from the qualifying round are used determine the seedings for the bracketed tournament next week.I want to make my goal and get the best result: to make my family and the people around me happy and let them know Im OK and Im strong, she said.Theres no questioning her talent in archery. Over the last few years, Nemati has turned in a few top-10 finishes at World Cup events. Just last year she was ninth at a tournament in Poland.At the 2012 London Paralympics, she captured gold to become the first woman from Iran to do so, according to the Rio Olympics website.Nemati earned her spot at both the Olympics and Paralympics with a strong performance at the 2015 Asian Championships and Asian Para Championships.I had a dream to be in the Olympics as I was doing taekwondo before my accident, she said. Now, this dream came true through archery.Nemati is hoping others in a similar situation will follow her path and has been named a United Nations ambassador for her role in empowering women through sport.For me, it means a lot to make the people who have big problems in their lives happy, Nemati said.Arriving in the stadium in a wheelchair, wearing a green head covering, a smiling Nemati was the flagbearer for a team made up overwhelmingly of men.She is the figurehead of a team from a country where strict interpretations of Islamic norms are enforced and female fans are traditionally barred from attending male-only sporting events. The previous female flagbearer from Iran was at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver.---This version updates to reflect that Iran had a female flagbearer at the 2010 Winter Olympics. Fake Cowboys Jerseys . 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Fry was among hundreds of people protesting in London on Saturday against that law, which he called "preposterous." The demonstrators waved placards calling for a boycott of Sochi, and banners with the Olympic rings rendered in black. They chanted "Gay Rights for Russia" as they protested across from Downing Street, where Cameron resides. The British prime minister thankedd Fry for his note, saying on Twitter that he shares Frys "deep concern about the abuse of gay people in Russia.dddddddddddd" "I believe we can better challenge prejudice as we attend, rather than boycotting the Winter Olympics," Cameron said. Camerons words echoed remarks made a day earlier by President Barack Obama, who said he was deeply offended by Russias new law cracking down on gay rights activism but does not think it is "appropriate" to boycott the Olympics. While Fry acknowledged Saturday that it was "probably not realistic to call for a move or a boycott," he urged athletes to make symbolic protests at the games, such as crossing their arms over their chests. Such a move would "show they are thinking of the gay people of Russia who are being tormented and brutalized every day," Fry told the BBC. ' ' '