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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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I Was a Rebel, I Was in a Stable Life Situation

"We were already refugees in Syria, but we didn't realize that," she says. "I started working when I was 15 years old, as a lifeguard... And I saw all of my rich friends come to the pool as guests and I was working too." Her family moved from one place to another every few months taking everything and leaving. 'You feel you don't have protection anymore neither,' she writes.

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