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World Refugee Day 2024 - IOC Refugee Olympic Team: Changing the rhetoric and portrayal of refugees
Olympics.com· 5 days ago"We have an opportunity during the Olympic Games to really change that rhetoric, change the way the...
Omid Ahmadisafa: The kickboxing world champion representing the Refugee Olympic Team in boxing at...
Olympics.com· 1 day agoAhmadisafa is more than grateful for his pathway to Paris, where he will compete in the 51kg weight...
Refugee Olympic Team Chef de Mission Masomah Ali Zada highlights the importance of access to sport...
Olympics.com· 5 days agoAhead of the Olympic Games Paris 2024, the Olympic Refuge Foundation is working through its Terrains...
IOC welcomes United Nations’ solemn appeal to observe Olympic Truce for Paris 2024
Olympics.com· 4 hours agoFrancis also noted that Paris 2024 would be “breaking new ground in gender equality and inclusivity”...
Refugee Olympic Team: first-ever pin design revealed on World Refugee Day
Olympics.com· 5 days agoThe first trades likely took place at London 1908, when the delegations started to design and wear...
Olympic refugee team: Farzad Mansouri on his Kabul-Britain journey
BBC News· 6 days agoMansouri was in Tokyo, having lost in the last 16 in the +80kg category at the Olympics, when a...
Fleeing Kabul, chasing gold - the story of a refugee Olympian
BBC via Yahoo Sports· 6 days agoFarzad Mansouri was the teenage flagbearer for his nation at the last Olympics. Three years on,...
Rounding Up Supreme Court Decisions So Far
The Dispatch via Yahoo News· 1 day agoIt’s rare that the court goes beyond June in handing down decisions, so the last of the opinions are expected this week. But if the justices push the...
2-time Canadian Olympic speed skating medallist Pascal Dion calls it a career
KPVI· 6 days agoPascal Dion has retired from Canada's short-track speed skating team after a 10-year career that...
Sacramento’s Camp Nefesh hosts refugee children during World Refugee Day
The Sacramento Bee· 5 days agoRefugee children from Honduras, Afghanistan, Ukraine, Russia, Venezuela and Fiji were welcomed at this year’s Camp Nefesh. The free summer day camp, hosted by Congregation ...