(Source: UNHCR - Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees) Athletes Paulo Amotun Lokoro and Rose Nathike Lokonyen enjoy the beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It was the first time either had seen the ocean. © UNHCR Early one morning as he woke up in his room at the Olympic Village in Rio de Janeiro, South Sudanese runner Yiech Pur Biel answered a call from a number he did not recognize and a voice came on the line he had not heard for a dozen years. 'It was my mum,' says Biel, who was separated from his parents as he fled the war at home in 2005 and grew up alone as a refugee in Kenya. 'I didn't know if she was alive or dead. She didn't know if I was alive or dead, in fact...
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