For Refugee Team, Just Being In Rio Is Like Winning Gold
i Members of the Refugee Olympic Team have their picture taken with United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, and UNHCR staff inside the Olympic Village. For the first time in...
View ArticleRio Olympics 2016: Refugee Olympic Team - how are they getting on?
Anis clocked a personal best in the men's 100m freestyle in RioRami Anis (swimming) Who is he? The 25-year-old fled war-torn Syria in 2015, travelling by boat across the Mediterranean Sea to Turkey...
View ArticleRefugee Olympic Team Now Being Cheered On In Kenya's Kakuma Refugee Camp
The refugee crisis has been a hot topic this year and much of the media coverage surrounding the issue has been negative. But at Rio 2016, the Refugee Olympic Team has been met with a huge welcome and...
View ArticleHow is the Refugee Team doing in the Olympics?
The 10 athletes in the Refugee Team began competing in Rio Aug. 6, when swimmer Yusra Mardini won her heat in the 100-meter butterfly competition. The marathon Aug. 21 will mark the team’s last event;...
View ArticleRio Olympics 2016: Sudanese refugee runners make track and field debut
(L-R) Paulo Amotun Lokoro (1500m athlete), Rose Nathike Lokonyen (800m), Yiech Pur Biel (800m), Anjelina Nada Lohalith (1500m) and James Nyang...
View ArticleLive Blog: Refugee Olympic Team turns dreams into reality in Rio (UNHCR -...
(Source: UNHCR - Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees) Ten refugees who made history as members of the first-ever Refugee Olympic Team have started competing at Rio2016. The team...
View ArticleReady for Olympic Games, UN-supported refugee athletes set out for Rio
Print 29 July 2016 Five middle-distance runners from South Sudan, until recently living in Kenya’s Kakuma refugee camp, have flown out of the capital city of Nairobi to take part in the first-ever...
View ArticleFormer slave to run for South Sudan in Olympic marathon
LONDON: South Sudanese Olympic athlete Guor Marial may not be a hot medal tip for Sunday’s marathon, but the former slave’s road to Rio is one of the most astonishing stories of the games. As a...
View ArticleRefugee athletes to show world how sports transfer their lives through Rio 2016
RIO DE JANEIRO -- Yusra Mardini and her teammates from the first ever Refugee Olympic Team (ROT) told a press conference here on Saturday that bearing the Olympic flag in the upcoming Rio Games is a...
View ArticleOlympics open up new world for refugee runner
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — He's had no home for most of his life. Yet in a cavernous, mostly-empty stadium in Brazil, a world away from where he came from, Yiech Pur Biel felt as if he'd found one. Unseen...
View ArticleRio 2016: First-ever refugee team all smiles as they get clicked with the...
--> Sun, 31 Jul 2016-08:50am , Rio de Janeiro , Reuters Yusra Mardini, a swimmer who fled Syria's war, said that the entire refugee team was elated to be in Rio. Members of the first-ever Olympic...
View ArticleMost refugees aren’t future Olympic athletes – it's a shame we can’t bring...
Steve Jobs was the child of a Syrian migrant: that fact made its way around the internet at lightning speed when the lifeless body of three-year-old Aylan Kurdi was found washed up on a beach in...
View ArticleRefugee team takes centre stage ahead of Opening Ceremony. (UNHCR - Office of...
(Source: UNHCR - Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees) Refugees who will compete in the Olympic Games in Brazil visit the Christ the Redeemer statue in Parque Nacional da Tijuca....
View ArticleRefugee Olympic Team get a warm welcome in Rio (UNHCR - Office of the United...
(Source: UNHCR - Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees) Refugees who will compete in the Olympic Games in Brazil visit the Christ the Redeemer statue in Parque Nacional da Tijuca....
View ArticleLive Blog: Refugee Olympic Team turns dreams into reality in Rio (UNHCR -...
(Source: UNHCR - Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees) Ten refugees who made history as members of the first-ever Refugee Olympic Team have started competing at Rio2016. The team...
View ArticlePressure mounts for Olympic refugee team
A decade ago, Yiech Pur Biel fled from South Sudan alone, his parents and siblings having disappeared in the chaos of war. He arrived in Kakuma, Kenya, in 2005, and has been living as a refugee ever...
View ArticleThe Ten Athletes on the Olympic Refugee Team
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) named 10 refugee athletes who will compete as Team Refugee Olympic Athletes in this summer’s Olympics Games in Rio. The athletes are from Syria, South Sudan,...
View ArticleLive Blog: Refugee Olympic Team turns dreams into reality in Rio (UNHCR -...
(Source: UNHCR - Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees) Ten refugees who made history as members of the first-ever Refugee Olympic Team have started competing at Rio2016. The team...
View ArticleUNHCR welcomes announcement of Refugee Olympic Team (UNHCR - Office of the...
(Source: UNHCR - Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees) UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, warmly welcomes today's announcement by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) of the...
View ArticleTHE IOC TEN REFUGEE TEAM TO PARTICIPATE IN RIO (EOC - European Olympic...
(Source: EOC - European Olympic Committees) Lausanne, June 6, 2016 - the International Olympic Committee chose the ten refugee athletes that will act as a symbol of hope for refugees worldwide and...
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