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‘No Kicking’: Pregnant Shooter Will Compete in London Olympics

Pregnant Shooter Will Compete in London Olympics | Nur Suryani Mohamed Taibi

Malaysian shooter Nur Suryani Mohamed Taibi plans to compete in the Olympics when she's eight months pregnant. (Image source: Yahoo Sports)

Nur Suryani Mohamed Taibi’s unborn son or daughter is going to have one amazing “fun fact” to share about themselves someday.

The 29-year-old Malaysian shooter will be competing in this summer’s London Olympics — and she’ll be eight months pregnant at the time.

“I will talk to the baby before I compete…’no kicking, stay calm for one hour and 15 minutes only please,’” Suryani told Reuters.

Even though she’ll be 33 weeks along when she heads to London in July, her doctors have given the tentative OK.

“My aim is to compete,” she said. “Maybe, at the end of June or whatsoever, if I have some problem that would jeopardize the baby inside me, I will reconsider whether I am going or not. But I feel I am strong and my husband says ‘as long as you feel like that, energized to do that, it seems like that is your baby talking to you so you go.’”

According to Yahoo Sports, Suryani qualified for the Games at the Asian Shooting Championships in January, just days after finding out she was pregnant.

Still, her pregnancy will come with a few concessions: She said she‘ll probably skip the closing ceremonies since it won’t be advisable for her to fly by that time, and she’ll only be competing in the 10-meter air rifle event — not the 50-meter competition for which she also qualified.

“Yeah, I cannot do a prone position with this big stomach,” she said.

According to Reuters, she got her start in the sport when she was 15 years old and her dad took her to the shooting range for the first time.

“I like a rough job like that, not something girlie or feminine, I don’t like those types of sports so I tried and its been OK,” she said..

Comments (31)

  • Larry E
    Posted on April 16, 2012 at 5:37pm

    Good on ‘er! I hope that the baby hangs in there for the hour and a quarter without kicking.

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  • liinsivi
    Posted on April 16, 2012 at 2:09am

    I wonder what type of shooting she’s doing. If it’s 3P like I used to compete in then man it would be interesting to see how she does off-hand. Btw, for those of you wondering, it’s a .22 aka small bore. I’ve had the pleasure of shooting one of those, beautiful rifles.

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    • supermansdad
      Posted on April 17, 2012 at 9:46pm

      I‘m guessing 3p or other similar since she’s holding an Anshutz.

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  • Git-R-Done
    Posted on April 16, 2012 at 1:05am

    That’s awesome news. Good luck to her at the Olympics.

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  • Moe1138
    Posted on April 15, 2012 at 2:52pm

    Wow, a woman, pregnant, with a loaded weapon…I’m in love.

    Go Malaysia !!!

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  • dmerwin
    Posted on April 15, 2012 at 11:31am

    I say good for her. How many posters that have posted negative stories here can say that they are one of the hundred best in the world at anything (sport or skill)?

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  • hotrodrockets
    Posted on April 15, 2012 at 8:42am

    let’s face it. The Olympics have become a joke.
    From pro athletes to beach volleyball. Time to SCRAP the Olympics. Giant waste of time and money.

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  • OlderNSmarter
    Posted on April 15, 2012 at 7:20am

    Maybe the New Black Panthers will bring her over here to teach them how to shoot. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLSksGyVZS8

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  • hi
    Posted on April 14, 2012 at 7:59pm

    I think the Olympics should be for athetes who exert energy and are physically fit. There are so many non-athetic events in the Olympics now. It takes away from the real athletes. If grandma can kind of do it, then it shouldn’t be considered an Olympic sport.
    I understand that it takes skills. They just need to have their own world event, not an athletic one.

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    • scott2012
      Posted on April 14, 2012 at 8:49pm

      @HI
      Shooting sports have been part of the modern Olympics since the
      begining. In fact, the first medals in every Olympics are for shooting!

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    • echo216610
      Posted on April 15, 2012 at 10:08am

      as well as i remember the olympics started as a display of military skills, so shooting should be right up there near the top. the silly stuff would be stuff like ice dancing that there is really no way to even judge fairly. it all depends on how much the judges like what you did and how they judge the difficulty of your performance. as far as grandma doing it, if she has skills that would make her a worthy adversary on the battlefield then by all means lets see it. i would applaud her. lets see grandma with a rifle compete against the ice dancing duo and see what happens. i agree with you that there are things in the games that don’t belong but shooting should stay.

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  • LouC57
    Posted on April 14, 2012 at 5:57pm

    Another muslim shooter? lovely.

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  • david3755
    Posted on April 14, 2012 at 5:32pm

    I would love to see her shoot. Too bad all the children in England will not get to go due to the phobia of the London crowd not allowing children to attend (guns are scary). It is hard to believe that sacred island for a time stood alone against Hitler.

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    • Endstatism
      Posted on April 14, 2012 at 10:19pm

      If it was the England of today that was standing against Hitler in 1940, they would have fallen in less than 30 days or surrendered without a fight.

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    • SgtB
      Posted on April 15, 2012 at 10:12am

      At least London is letting people shoot in the olympics. Usually, the british olympian shooters have to go across the channel to even practice their sport because the UK doesn’t consider guns legal. Which is just another fact that makes me believe that they are all still subjects of a crown and not sovereign individuals with any type of meaningful freedom. But then again, we aren’t far off.

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  • Bad Kitty
    Posted on April 14, 2012 at 5:18pm

    watch out bad guys! a pregnant woman will beat ALL OF YOU in a shootout

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  • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
    Posted on April 14, 2012 at 4:05pm

    Good luck and best fortune.

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  • theninthplanet
    Posted on April 14, 2012 at 3:48pm

    You go girl.

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  • marine249
    Posted on April 14, 2012 at 3:37pm

    Better than a 105 howitzer.

    Good luck Lady.

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  • whatthecrazy
    Posted on April 14, 2012 at 3:31pm

    I think this is using the olympics to train for terrorism but i could be wrong or just really bored and am trying to escape house cleaning…………..

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  • Psychosis
    Posted on April 14, 2012 at 3:25pm

    i wasnt aware that they had a bb gun competition in the olympics

    next it will be a nerf gun competition

    sissyfying the world one step at a time

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