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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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Are You Really Professional Swimmers?

"I'm sorry that you're going through this because I can feel your sadness," she says. "You have been denied so much of your own history and so many of the markers that many of us take for granted in terms of our own identity, swimming is or has been your identity." If he could do it all over again, Simone Biles would choose to swim on the refugee Olympic team rather than win a gold medal as part of her HCR family.

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