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PARIS, FRANCE – AUGUST 03: Layla Almasri of Team Palestine looks on during the Women’s 800m … More Repechage Round on day eight of the Olympic Games Paris 2024 at Stade de France on August 03, 2024 in Paris, France. (Photo by Cameron Spencer/Getty Images) Getty Images When Layla Almasri steps to the line of the women’s 5,000 meters on Saturday at the Sunset Tour in Los Angeles, California, it will be another reminder of the faith she’s placed in herself to go places she never dreamed possible only a few years earlier. The 26-year-old Colorado native and Palestinian-American athlete, who made the one-time switch to represent her parent’s home country in March 2023, progressed all the way to the Paris Olympics last August, using a universality place to run for Palestine in the women’s 800 meters. But for Almasri, a former NCAA Division II walk-on whose best event is the 5,000 meters, that moment came with a slight asterisk after she finished second to last out of 49 competitors at the distance. To some, that opportunity would be just that. A brilliant moment, and one to cherish. And to Almasri, it was. But today, her faith has carried her even greater lengths forward, past those old personal best marks, and it has allowed her to hold on to the idea that she can compete with any woman in the world. In April, she ran 15:40.72 for 5,000 meters at the Bryan Clay Invitational, a time that registers 51 seconds better than her career-best mark at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs in 2022 but 50 seconds shy of the World Championship standard. It’s currently among the top 300 performances in the world at the distance. “As a coach, my goal is just to try and support her the…

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