Hi everyone. I'm Maggie McGrath, senior editor at Forbes. The

2024 Summer Olympics are continuing to play out and among this year's

competitors are 37 athletes who represent the Olympic

Refugee team.

Here to tell us more about these athletes is Kelly Clements.

She is the Deputy High Commissioner

for the UN Refugee Agency.

Kelly, thank you so much for joining us.

You're speaking to us from Geneva,

and we so appreciate your time.

Thank you. Glad to be here. So let's dive right in.

I mentioned 37 athletes are on this team.

Who are they?

What do we need to know about the Refugee Olympic team?

Well, you mentioned the number and that's notable. You know I was

in Rio eight years ago when we had the first refugee Olympic team under the auspices of the International Olympic Committee and there was just over a dozen at that point.

So we're talking about three times as many athletes.

They represent 15 national committees who have put them forward as potential athletes that could compete for the Olympics.

And they're competing in 12 different sports.

And the sports range from everything from Taekwondo

to canoeing to boxing.

And they represent, they are basically competing

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