Historic refugee squad ready to make history at Youth Olympic Games - EWN
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An inspiring six-member refugee team has arrived in Senegal to make history as the very first International Olympic Committee (IOC) refugee squad to compete at a Youth Olympic Games.
An inspiring six-member refugee team has arrived in Senegal to make history as the very first International Olympic Committee (IOC) refugee squad to compete at a Youth Olympic Games.
They will line up alongside 2,700 athletes from around the world in the first Olympic event ever hosted on African soil.
Led by Yiech Pur Biel, a South Sudanese refugee who competed at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, the squad consists of six young athletes based in Kenya and Uganda. The team features equal representation of male and female athletes, competing across three sports: athletics, judo and taekwondo.
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