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SAN FRANCISCO, (BSW) - Visa Inc. (NYSE:V) announced today the fullTeam Visaroster for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games. With 60 athletes, it is the most expansive group of Olympic and Paralympic athletes...
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(Source: Visa Inc) http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20160720005369/en/ Visa is thrilled to welcome refugee Olympic athletes to the #TeamVisa community of 60 Olympic athletes. #Rio2016 (Photo:...
View ArticleVisa Adds Refugee Olympic Athletes to Complete Team Visa Rio 2016 Roster
SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Visa Inc. (NYSE:V) announced today the full Team Visa roster for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games. With 60 athletes, it is the most expansive group of Olympic and Paralympic...
View ArticleRio 2016: For the first time ever, a 'refugee team' of 10 athletes to take ...
--> The International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced the team will be backed by 12 officials and will participate in the Games under the Olympic flag. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) on...
View ArticleOlympic refugee team: James Chiengjiek’s escape from the clutches of war to...
(Source: Comitê Organizador dos Jogos Olímpicos e Paraolímpicos Rio 2016) After fleeing his home to avoid being forced to become a child soldier, South Sudanese runner wants to use his platform to help...
View ArticleOlympic refugee team: Yiech Pur Biel, the ‘Lost Boy’ who found a sense of...
(Source: Comitê Organizador dos Jogos Olímpicos e Paraolímpicos Rio 2016) The South Sudanese runner, who lived for 10 years in a refugee camp, will compete in the 800m at the Rio 2016 Games Eleven...
View ArticleRio 2016: Africans overshadow Refugee Team (ANOCA - Association of National...
(Source: ANOCA - Association of National Olympic Committees of Africa) A special team has been selected to take part in the Rio Games alongside regular delegations representing IOC member NOCs. It...
View ArticleOlympic refugee team to be ‘symbol of hope’ in Rio
Attached Files: ID: 1464972837959981900 Publication Date: Friday, June 3, 2016 LAUSANNE, Switzerland: Ten refugee athletes from Africa and the Middle East were selected Friday to compete under the...
View ArticleIOC announces refugee team for Rio Olympics
RIO DE JANEIRO - Ten refugees will participate at this year's Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro by representing a new flag for athletes that have fled conflict-riven countries and regions, the...
View ArticleOlympic refugee team: Anjelina Nadai Lohalith hopes Rio 2016 success will...
(Source: Comitê Organizador dos Jogos Olímpicos e Paraolímpicos Rio 2016) After fleeing war in her native South Sudan at just six years old, the 1500m runner dreams of returning and building her father...
View ArticleThese 10 refugees will compete at the 2016 Olympics in Rio (UNHCR - Office of...
(Source: UNHCR - Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees) Ten refugees have been selected to form the first-ever Refugee Olympic Athletes team. © UNHCR Since the modern Olympics...
View Article10 refugees picked for IOC team
The Associated Press LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — Ten refugee athletes from Africa and the Middle East were selected Friday to compete under the Olympic flag at the Rio de Janeiro Games in what the IOC...
View ArticleA message of hope: 10 athletes announced for refugee team at Rio 2016 Olympic...
(Source: Comitê Organizador dos Jogos Olímpicos e Paraolímpicos Rio 2016) IOC president says initiative is 'signal to the international community that refugees are our fellow human beings' They will...
View ArticleRefugee athletes arrive for Rio 2016 with one dream: meet Usain Bolt (Comitê...
(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...
View ArticleHow these Olympic underdogs became sporting heroes at Rio
(CNN)It's often the household names that dominate Olympic coverage. But this year, a group of relatively obscure Olympians grabbed headlines, becoming the unlikely champs of the Games in Rio and...
View ArticleOlympic refugee team to be 'symbol of hope' in Rio
Ten refugee athletes from Africa and the Middle East were selected today to compete under the Olympic flag at the Rio de Janeiro Games in what the IOC said represents a "symbol of hope" for migrants...
View ArticleOlympic refugee team: the cattle herder turned refugee turned Olympian...
(Source: Comitê Organizador dos Jogos Olímpicos e Paraolímpicos Rio 2016) South Sudanese 1500m runner Paulo Amotun Lokoro is not coming to Brazil just to take part - he wants a gold medal Paulo Amotun...
View ArticleOlympic refugee team: shoeless Rose Nathike Lokonyen becomes envoy for peace...
(Source: Comitê Organizador dos Jogos Olímpicos e Paraolímpicos Rio 2016) The South Sudanese runner, who will compete in the 800m at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, only started running with shoes one year...
View ArticleRefugees run long, inspiring road to Rio’s world stage
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — They were used to running barefoot on baking ground. They were raw, untrained. All eager. Each day, the five runners who grew up in the Kakuma refugee camp pounded the dusty...
View ArticleRefugees run long, inspiring road to Rio's world stage
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — They were used to running barefoot on baking ground. They were raw, untrained. All eager. Each day, the five runners who grew up in the Kakuma refugee camp pounded the dusty...
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