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Refugee Olympic Team

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Jennifer Pahlke
June 7, 2021

Almost 8,000 athletes have already qualified for the Tokyo Olympics. Just as in Rio in 2016, there will also be a special team in Tokyo: The Refugee Olympic Team. Fifty-six IOC scholarship holders hope to participate in the Olympics, among them Iranian refugee Saeid Fazloula.

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