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Yusra Mardini: with the Olympic Games, I Realized that I Could Do What I Wanted From the Refugee Word

Summary by GQ France
She was the flagbearer of the refugee team at the Tokyo Olympics, before becoming ambassador to the UN and the symbol of a wounded Syrian people. Today Yusra Mardini returns for the first time in ten years to her home country. She evokes for GQ her ambiguous feeling of exile, her pain to find a ruinous territory and this long way she had to travel to find an inner peace.
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She was the flagbearer of the refugee team at the Tokyo Olympics, before becoming ambassador to the UN and the symbol of a wounded Syrian people. Today Yusra Mardini returns for the first time in ten years to her home country. She evokes for GQ her ambiguous feeling of exile, her pain to find a ruinous territory and this long way she had to travel to find an inner peace.

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GQ France broke the news in on Wednesday, August 27, 2025.
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