Muslim figure skater from UAE set to make history at Olympics

Professional figure skater Zahra Lari speaks to the United Arab Emirates and has a major dream. 

The 21-year-old from Abu Dhabi has spoken to her nation in worldwide rivalries held in Slovakia, Hungary, and Italy, among others. 

Lari now has her heart set on the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, South Korea. 

In 2013, the UAE turned out to be a piece of the International Skating Union, making ready for Lari to take part in significant global rivalries. On the off chance that she makes it to the Winter Olympics, she'll be leaving a mark on the world for her nation. 

Roused by the Disney film Ice Princess, Lari began skating spontaneously when she was around 12 years of age. 

"When I initially ventured onto the ice, I fell," she told The Huffington Post. "I knew I simply expected to make sense of how to get go down and continue attempting. So that is the thing that I did. Fall after fall, I kept getting move down." 

Be that as it may, resolute by the falls, Lari was snared to the game. What began as an after-school leisure activity bloomed into an extreme enthusiasm for the game. 

By 2015, she was preparing between four to seven hours a day, adjusting her time on the ice with schoolwork at the Abu Dhabi University. 

While her guardians were at first reluctant about her skating, stressed she would harm herself or her scholastics would endure, they started supporting her completely after they understood how energetic she was about the game. 

"There was a period when my father needed me to stop since he said I was getting excessively genuine and he felt I had achieved the age that I expected to stop," Lari said. "He generally did as such with affection and benevolence." 

"At the point when there was a national rivalry, he declined to permit me to take part," she said. "Be that as it may, in all decency, he took me to watch and cheer for my kindred colleagues. When he perceived how cheerful I was for them yet tragic for myself, he permitted me to proceed. That was the point at which he at long last comprehended me and the amount I really cherished this game." 

Lari would like to move young ladies — both Muslim and non-Muslim — by her story to work towards their own fantasies. 

"I wish for every single youthful wome to discover their energy. To be worried for their wellbeing and prosperity. To take up a game. To not give little obstructions a chance to look like mountains. To make progress toward their own particular advancement and to not see the distinctions in individuals but rather to just see the similarities. This is my desire for all," she said.