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First ever Refugee Olympic Team show up in opening ceremony

Xinhua, August 6, 2016 Adjust font size:

The first ever Olympic refugee team became the spotlight in the Rio Olympics opening ceremony on Friday.

The team was the penultimate one to enter the Maracana Stadium, just before host Brazil.

Rose Nathike Lokonyen, an 800m runner who fled the war in South Sudan and arrived at the Kakuma Refugee Camp in northern Kenya in 2002, carried the Olympic flag for this special squad.

The team includes five runners from South Sudan, two swimmers from Syria, two judokas from the Democratic Republic of Congo and a marathon runner from Ethiopia. Endit