Mika -Famous singer, fled from Lebanon. The announcement came on World Refugee Day (20th June) with all 10 members of the first ROT at Rio 2016 bidding to compete at a second Games. The athletes will compete for the Refugee Olympic Team (ROT) - the first of its kind - and march with the Olympic flag immediately before host nation Brazil at the Opening Ceremony. Ten refugee athletes will act as a symbol of hope for refugees worldwide and bring global attention to the magnitude of the refugee crisis when they take part in the Olympic Games Rio 2016 this summer. IOC Names 10 Athletes to Refugee Team for Rio Olympics published by Mooba Writer Rating: 3.3333 Posted on 2016-06-03 Writer Description: Brandon This writer has written 186 articles. The daughter of a Czech diplomat, she was a refugee during World War II in England, where she lived through the Blitz. Olympic officials have identified 43 candidates for a team of refugee athletes who will compete in the Rio Games in a "message of hope" for millions of exiled people around the world.
Five middle-distance runners from South Sudan, until recently living in Kenya's Kakuma refugee camp, to take part in first-ever Refugee Olympic Team. K’Naan – Hip-hop artist, refugee from Somalia now living in Toronto, Canada. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) named today 10 refugee athletes who will compete as a team at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro this summer, with hopes of shining a … The members of the first ever Olympic refugee team include athletes from South Sudan, Syria, Congo and Ethiopia who will compete in track and field, swimming and judo. M.I.A. – English-born singer/ hip-hop artist, part of a Tamil Sri Lankan refugee family.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has announced today (June 3), the names of the athletes who will compete this summer in Rio as the first ever Refugee Olympic Team. These 10 refugees will compete at the 2016 Olympics in Rio. Among the 37 names are 13 new individual athletes, and a group of athletes preparing at the Tegla Loroupe Refugee Training Centre in Kenya. Freddie Mercury – Lead singer of the band Queen, fled to England from Zanzibar in 1964. The team for Tokyo 2020 will be announced in June next year. Her family returned to Czechoslovakia after the Nazis were defeated, but escaped to the U.S. after the Communist takeover of their … Refugee athletes set out for Rio Olympics and history .