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- Daisy Mae
- Mar 26, 2016
- 1 min read
She Swam for Her Life to the Greek Coast, Now Syrian Refugee is Olympic Hopeful
by Terry Turner
''A teen-aged girl who saved the lives of fellow refugees may soon represent them at the 2016 Olympics.
Fleeing Syria last August, Yusra Mardini and her sister, Sarah, boarded a seven-person boat overflowing with 20 refugees. None of the others knew that a world-class swimmer, who’d trained for a decade to compete in the Olympics, was sitting with them.
They’d owe their lives to her — and that training — over the next few hours...''
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