How 37 remarkable athletes have overcome harrowing tales of hardship and tragedy to make it to the Paris Games
arida Abaroge jogged across the athletics track in Normandy in the early morning light. “When you’ve known hard times, mental and emotional fitness is just as important as physical form,” she said as she trained for the 1500m at the Paris Olympics. Abaroge is part of the International Olympic Committee’s Refugee Team, which represents more than 100 million displaced people. “This team is like a family,” she said.
‘I want to tell it just as I see it’: Laura Kenny on Olympic glory, personal pain and talking straightShe credits the local town hall and refugee charity workers in north-eastern France with setting her back on the path to the Olympics. “When I arrived in France, alone, they asked me what my passion was in life. I said sport. They took me to a shop to buy some trainers and kit and I started running.
The team spent several days in Bayeux in Normandy this week for training and team building before arriving at the Olympic Village in Paris. They cycled together to one of the D-day Normandy landing beaches at Arromanches-les-Bains, where a tour guide recounted details of the fight against fascism in the second world war.‘I really hope we can find peace in my country.’ Farzad Mansouri left Afghanistan with only his Olympic kit when the Taliban returned to power.
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