Yusra Mardini .. at sea to the Olympics

Young that were not after seventeen beyond when she ran away from the face of death in Syria, were not aware that the immigration journey "tragic" that fought Stouselha to the Olympics. A refugee from the sea to the Olympic team for the refugees.

Just a year ago between the two experiments Uniquely Aachthma young "Yusra Mardini" aged 18 years. In this time last year had little choice but to slit the sea in order to escape from death, which is encircled in Syria, and this year ripped again but in order to compete in the Olympic Games. The "affordable" and her sister "Sarah" Fortan from Damascus in August 2015 over the Aegean Sea, which they tried to cross it on a boat carrying 20 people instead of six, and he sank 30 minutes after the inevitable result of that.

After that water began filling the boat jumped Yusra and her sister Sara Kavana to the water and to pay for the boat to the shore and saved the lives of 20 people. But Yusra and her sister decided to continue swimming to Berlin. She lived easier with her sister in Berlin, there is also learned with swimming at the hands of a German coach in order to qualify for the Olympic Games in 2020. After that Count Committee Olympics for the first time a team of refugees to participate in the Rio 2016 Olympics managed Yusra, 18, to join the team.

Saturday topped her first collection for swimming 100 butterfly, although the time was not put in the 16th fastest, and began preparing for the next competition in the 100-meter freestyle on Sunday.