For the first time in a decade, Olympic swimmer Yusra Mardini returned this month to Syria, the country whose civil war she ...

She always wanted to be a swimmer and was receiving formal training for the same back in her nation, but after the war broke out, she and her sister had to leave Syria. Yusra Mardini searched for ...

Yusra, then 17, and her sister Sarah made the heartbreaking ... the most insurmountable obstacles. From Syrian refugee to ...

Olympic swimmer and Syrian refugee Yusra Mardini, whose story inspired the ... she not only survived but along with her sister heroically saved the lives of everyone onboard her dinghy.

Syrian refugee swimmer Yusra Mardini ... but they did honour us,” she said. The Mardini sisters were reunited with their parents and youngest sibling once settled in Germany, and the family ...

Olympic swimmer and Syrian refugee Yusra Mardini was appointed the youngest-ever Goodwill ... In August 2015, Yusra fled the Syrian Civil War with her sister Sara. She made the treacherous journey to ...

The 18-year-old Syrian swimmer is representing the Refugee ... Red Cross declared a state of civil war in Syria – Mardini and her elder sister Sarah fled their home in the war-torn capital ...

Olympic swimmer and Syrian refugee Yusra Mardini, actress and activist Sheryl Lee Ralph, and photojournalist Lynsey Addario ...

Netflix’s upcoming film The Swimmers tells the remarkable true story of two Syrian sisters ... In 2016, two sisters by the names of Sarah and Yusra Mardini competed at the Rio Olympic Games.

Yusra Mardini went from swimming to survive as a Syrian refugee to swimming in the ... Magdalena Sodomkova travelled with Yusra, her sister and other refugees as they approached the Hungarian ...

Sarah Mardini and her younger sister Yusra are both world class swimmers from Syria. When they were trying to flee their war torn country the sisters' talent saved the lives of 18 people when ...

The students also heard from 27-year-old Olympic swimmer and Syrian refugee Yusra Mardini ... In 2015, at age 17, Mardini and her sister, Sarah, fled their war-torn home in Damascus, embarking ...