Yusra Mardini, who is in Rio to represent to a group of 10 refugees , has an extremely unique story.
Just a year prior, the 18-year-old who is planning to make the IOC's Refugee Olympic Athletes group was swimming for her life in the Aegean Sea. Mardini and her sister, alongside two in number swimmers saved the lives of 20 Syrian refugees after jumping from their capsizing boat and pushing it to land.
“We were the only four who knew how to swim,” she recalls. “I had one hand with the rope attached to the boat as I moved my two legs and one arm. It was three and half hours in cold water. Your body is almost like … done. I don’t know if I can describe that,” Mardini says.
She will be competing in the women’s 100-metre butterfly and freestyle heats on Saturday and Wednesday. Her appearance is one of the most highly anticipated of the Games.
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