Refugee boat dragged to shore for hours: Yusra Mardini in an interview about her story that moved the world. The 25-year-old now works as an ambassador and is on Time's list of the 100 most influential people in 2023.
Yusra competed for the refugee team at the Rio (2016) and Tokyo (2021) Olympics. Her story is told in the Netflix film “The Swimmers’ It was very important for us to tell this story. We wanted people around the world to understand what a refugee is.