Watch | Refugees get a shot at Olympics
Updated on Jun 06, 2016 12:48 pm IST
From Congo to Brazil, ten athletes living in refuge have been selected to compete on the Olympic refugee team to highlight the world's refugee crisis. The team was designed so refugee athletes get the same status at the Games as other competitors. But also to raise awareness about the scope of the world refugee crisis, with the U.N. saying over 60 million people are forcibly displaced worldwide, and a third of them - refugees. Five of the 10 athletes are originally from South Sudan -- displaced by war -- living now at a refugee camp in Kenya and training in the capital Nairobi.
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