{"id":253150,"date":"2017-05-07T10:00:28","date_gmt":"2017-05-07T17:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=253150"},"modified":"2017-05-04T14:35:49","modified_gmt":"2017-05-04T21:35:49","slug":"swimmer-changing-global-perceptions-of-refugees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/swimmer-changing-global-perceptions-of-refugees\/","title":{"rendered":"How One Swimmer Is Changing Global Perceptions Of Refugees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Erin Keaveny, Swimming World College Intern<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The road to the Olympic Games is a challenging one. Any athlete could crumble under the burden of rigorous training regimens, pressures to perform, and uncertainties about what the future holds.\u00a0Still, it comes as little surprise that <strong>Yusra Mardini<\/strong>\u00a0had the mental toughness to take on the challenges associated\u00a0with training as\u00a0an elite athlete.<\/p>\n<p>The teen made her Olympic debut last summer in the 100-meter free and 100-meter fly, and the inspiring story of how she got there is far from typical. At her first games, Mardini competed under the Olympic flag for the first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/syrian-refugee-to-participate-in-olympic-torch-exchange\/\" target=\"_blank\">Refugee Olympic Team<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Mardini&#8217;s journey to the Olympics was more difficult than most. Her swimming career started in Syria, a scenario complicated when the the civil war broke out in 2011. In an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.olympic.org\/news\/the-inspirational-olympic-journey-of-refugee-swimmer-yusra-mardini\" target=\"_blank\">interview<\/a>, she commented &#8220;the war was hard; sometimes we couldn&#8217;t train because of the war. Or sometimes you had training but there was a bomb in the swimming pool.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>With the escalation of the conflict at home, Mardini, like millions of other Syrians, fled the country. She left Damascus and made her way into Turkey with her sister. From there, she headed to Greece by way of the Aegean Sea. A small boat, built to carry six passengers, had twenty refugees aboard. Somewhere in crossing the boat&#8217;s small motor broke, and the vessel started filling with water. All but three of the refugees aboard did not know how to swim.<\/p>\n<p>Along with her sister and one other, Mardini jumped out of the boat and swam alongside it for over three hours, saving the lives of everyone aboard.<\/p>\n<p>From Greece, Mardini and her sister traveled to Germany, where their parents would soon settle as well. She has since been training and living in Berlin. It was in Germany where Mardini would be named to the Refugee Olympic Team, and continue on to compete in Rio.<\/p>\n<p>In anticipation of the Olympics Mardini told <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/storyline\/team-refugees\/how-yusra-mardini-survived-25-day-trek-syria-became-olympian-n601946\" target=\"_blank\">NBC news<\/a>, &#8220;all of us in the water, you will forget who you are, what you did in your life, and what country you are from. 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In it, she talks about her experience as a refugee, as well as what that label means to her.<\/p>\n<p>She writes &#8220;It was only after I crossed the border I realized I&#8217;d lost more than my house and all my possessions. I&#8217;d lost my nationality, my identity, my name. Now I was refugee.&#8221; She continues to say &#8220;there is no shame in being a refugee if we remember who we are.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mardini calls others to join her in standing for &#8220;peace, decency, and dignity for all those fleeing violence.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In Mardini&#8217;s statemnet for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/en-us\/yusra-mardini.html\" target=\"_blank\">UNHCR<\/a>\u00a0she proclaims &#8220;the most important thing in my life is swimming. 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