Olympic swimmer and Syrian refugee Yusra Mardini was appointed the youngest-ever Goodwill Ambassador for UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency in April 2017, aged just nineteen. By sharing her inspiring story, ...

She has grand plans for her Yusra Mardini Foundation, yet she is astute enough to realise there is a need for patience. Her passion for swimming and sport’s ability to inspire can wait.

Yusra Mardini. The 18-year-old Syrian swimmer is representing the Refugee Olympic Team, a group of 10 ‘stateless’ athletes who’ll make their first appearance in Friday's opening ceremony.

Yusra Mardini went from swimming to survive as a Syrian refugee to swimming in the Rio Olympics. Show more The story Yusra Mardini, the teenage Syrian refugee who swam to survive, and was then ...

Syria's most famous swimmer, Yusra Mardini, has spent the past weeks in Paris, embedded in the refugee Olympic team for the third summer Games in a row. But Mardini, 26, has shifted from being the ...

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

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Competing at these 2016 Summer Games is not so straightforward for Yusra, who less than a year ago was fighting for her life ...

Visa Inc. (NYSE:V) today announced the addition of Yusra Mardini to Team Visa Rio 2016.