{"id":609325,"date":"2025-04-01T13:37:27","date_gmt":"2025-04-01T20:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=609325"},"modified":"2025-04-01T13:37:27","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T20:37:27","slug":"olympic-swimmer-yusra-mardini-returns-to-syria-to-help-my-people-heal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/olympic-swimmer-yusra-mardini-returns-to-syria-to-help-my-people-heal\/","title":{"rendered":"Olympic Swimmer Yusra Mardini Returns to Syria \u2018To Help My People Heal\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Olympic Swimmer Yusra Mardini Returns to Syria \u2018To Help My People Heal\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

For the first time in a decade, Olympic swimmer Yusra Mardini<\/strong> returned this month to Syria, the country whose civil war she fled in 2015. Her journey away from her homeland, which led to two Olympic appearances with the Refugee Olympic Team, has been chronicled in the Netflix film<\/a>, The Swimmers<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Mardni posted a video to social media on March 13 of her touring the pool in Damascus in which she used to train. (It\u2019s the one that is struck by a missile during a practice session in the film.) She also toured the neighborhood of Darayya where she grew up, the block that housed her former childhood home reduced to rubble.<\/p>\n

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A post shared by Yusra Mardini (@yusramardini)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n