Their absence was noticed at dinner. Iranian staff and security rushed through the lobby of the team’s upscale Gold Coast hotel, passing protestors, players, and beleaguered fellow guests, searching for the five squad members — captain Zahra Ghanbari, Fatemeh Pasandideh, Zahra Sarbali, Atefeh Ramazanzadeh, and Mona Hamoudi — who had defected from the women’s football team. “They are coming back,” one senior member of the Iran delegation insisted to the remaining players. “The police are going to
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