The logo of the Olympic Games at Rio de Janeiro in 2016. My daughters and I have been avid followers of the Olympics for...I guess it started with me, even before we became a family. Hubby and I could not afford a television. Yes, they had televisions instead of flat screens back then. Anyway, the Olympics games were due to start and I really wanted to watch them. Sad to say, this was even before live streaming on the Internet. Yes, it was a pathetic case. My mother-in-law, out of desperation to get some peace, loaned us her portable kitchen set so I'd watch the games at hubby's and my apartment. In all of my viewing years, I cannot recall there ever being a refugee team before. This year, the International Olympic Committee approved ten refugee athletes to compete in the games. Due to unrest in each one's homeland, these men and women did not have a country and therefore would not have been able to compete. The IOC created the refugee team just f...
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