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Refugee athletes arrive for Rio 2016 with one dream: meet Usain Bolt (Comitê Organizador dos Jogos Olímpicos e Paraolímpicos Rio 2016)

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(Source: Comitê Organizador dos Jogos Olímpicos e Paraolímpicos Rio 2016) The world's first Refugee Olympic Team (ROT), which will compete at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, is almost complete. On Friday morning (29 July), five athletes from South Sudan, who today live in Kenya, arrived in Rio de Janeiro ahead of their participation in the athletics events at Rio 2016. One of them, Paulo Lokoro, who will compete in the 1500 metres has one dream in particular: to meet Jamaican sprint star Usain Bolt. Brazil to...

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