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I feel very excited. This is the first chance for the refugees to participate in the Olympics and to give us hope, for us to encourage the young generations of fellow refugees who are remaining in the camps maybe to continue their talent.

— Rose Lokonyen

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I had not been training. It was the first time for me to run and I came number two, I was very suprised!

My hope is just to try my best, to improve on my time.

Sport has that power to change a life. Especially for refugees.

I didn’t know that talent could take me anywhere, I just loved sport.

We have so many nationalities but we don’t think, ‘this person is from this country, this person is from that country,’ we stay as brothers and sisters,There is a great peace among us.

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