The 2024 Summer Olympics closed on Sunday, and Team USA once again dominated the games, winning an astounding 126 medals, including 40 gold medals. Contributors to this incredible medal count included a number of athletes with immigrant roots. Gymnast Suni Lee, the daughter of a refugee born in Laos,...
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Naomi Girma is a proud daughter of Ethiopian immigrants and a Stanford University graduate with a degree in computational linguistics. She has been described as “one of the best defenders in the world” by one of her former soccer teammates. She may soon add Olympic medalist to her inspiring...
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The IOC Refugee Olympic Team was met with resounding applause at Friday’s opening ceremony of the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris. They were led by Cameroon-born boxer Cindy Ngamba and Syria-born taekwondo athlete Yahya Al Ghotany, who had the honor of being designated flag bearers for what is only...
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Fernando Dayán Jorge Enriquez, a Cuban refugee and canoeist who now calls Florida his home, is among 37 athletes set to compete at the upcoming 2024 Summer Olympics as part of the IOC Refugee Olympic Team. “The team was created for the Rio Olympics in 2016 as a symbol...
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The groups Donald Trump has attacked since the launch of his Presidential campaign last year have been responsible for winning historic victories for the US at the Olympic Games. Ibtihaj Muhammad, a Muslim-American athlete born in New Jersey, made history as the first Team USA woman to compete in an Olympic...
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While the first-ever refugee team was greeted by a standing ovation at the opening of the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio, Vox’s Dara Lind writes that nations must do more to fix their crisis. “The Refugee Olympic Team is also a symbol of the failure of the international community,”...
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Ten refugees were among the thousands of athletes kicking off the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio last weekend — an historic first. The team of ten refugees — selected from a pool of nearly 1,000 athletes from Syria, South Sudan, and other troubled regions of the world — marched into Maracanã...
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