SUMMER ACTIVITIES 1 - YUSRA MARDINI, SWIMMING FOR HER LIFE ALL THE WAY TO THE OLYMPICS

The first refugee team to ever compete at the Olympic Games has been revealed, with 10 athletes given the dream opportunity of going for gold in Rio. Yusra Mardini, a teenage Syrian swimmer living and training in Berlin, is one of them. Read and watch her story and complete the tasks in the worksheet. 

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"There are those whose footsteps we would not want to follow, whose shoes we would not want to be in - yet we strive to have their character, their strength, their drive and their courage. It is from them we learn that the worst of humanity can bring out the best in humanity"