S16, Ep3 How To Fail: Yusra Mardini - how a teenage Syrian refugee became an Olympic swimmer against unimaginable odds
How To Fail With Elizabeth Day
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Yusra Mardini is an Olympic swimmer who competed in Rio 2016 and Tokyo as part of the refugee team. She narrowly missed being killed when a rocket-propelled grenade smashed through the roof of the sports centre where she was swimming. In 2015, Yusra and her sister embarked on the perilous journey to Germany to seek asylum. Having reached Turkey, they paid a smuggler to take them to Greece by boat. 15 minutes after setting off from shore, the overcrowded dinghy's motor failed. Faced with the prospect of sinking, Yusra got in the water and pushed and pulled the boat through for over three hours until the group reached Lesbos. From there, Yusra
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