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'This skin that I wear, I can't take it off and that's what you're hating me for'.

100m hurdler Dawn Harper-Nelson won Olympic gold in Beijing in 2008 but was subject to racist abuse.

Sports stars have been speaking out following the death of George Floyd in the United States and subsequent protests against racial injustice. Dawn discusses her hope that her daughter will not have to grow up facing the same oppression.

Photo credit: Dawn Harper-Nelson at the IAAF World Athletics Championships, London 2017 (Getty Images).