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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Swimming - Your First Failure
I was the fastest female swimmer in my country at that age, but they chose to take another one, another swimmer. And I told them to my federation, can you make a race between me and her? And they say, no, it's her turn to go. You went to the world championships. At that point, I was like, you know what, this is not fair. But I did regret it later. Yeah. Thank you so much for sharing this. Let's get on to your failures. Your first failure is leaving swimming for a whole year when you were 15. And I imagine the reason you laughed is because your country was disintegrating into civil war.
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