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How swimming led Syrian refugee Yusra Mardini to freedom
You would think that pushing an overcrowded boat of terrified refugees for over three hours in Greek waters might put Yusra Mardini off swimming. But for the two-time Olympic competitor, getting back in the water was actually key to acclimatising when she reached Berlin as a refugee. “Swimming helped me get comfortable in a country where I didn’t know anyone and didn’t speak the language. It was the only familiar thing I knew and made me feel safe,” Yusra tells The New Arab as we speak shortly after the paperback release of her memoir, Butterfly: From Refugee to Olympian, My Story of Rescue, Hope, and Triumph.  Yusra competes in a heat for the women's 100m butterfly sw

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