Syrian Refugee Turned Olympic Swimmer Faces Fears In Return To Budapest
https://sports.good.is/features/yusra-mardini-budapest
‘I promised myself that I would come back here differently.’
“When I heard I was coming to Hungary again, I was afraid,” says Yusra Mardini. The 19-year-old Syrian refugee spent time living on the streets of Budapest two summers ago en route to Germany as she fled the war in her homeland. Her experience was so terrible that she never wanted to return. But her swimming career demanded she return to Hungary. In July, Budapest was the location of the 2017 FINA World Championships, which are important to Mardini because since her first trip to Hungary, she became an Olympic swimmer...
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