Athletes of the Refugee Olympic Team take pictures with a staffer in front of the statue of Christ the Redeemer ahead of Rio 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on July 30, 2016. #

Paulo Amotun Kokoro, left foreground, runs during a training session in Ngong, Kenya. Kokoro is one of five runners from South Sudan that grew up in a refugee camp and are part of the IOC's first refugee team that will be competing at the Rio Olympics. #

Olympic refugee team swimmer Rami Anis dives while training at the Olympic Aquatics Stadium ahead of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games on July 28, 2016. Both Anis and fellow swimmer Yusra Mardini are refugees of war-torn Syria. Both survived part of the dangerous journey by making their way from the Turkish coast across the Aegean Sea to Greece in boats. #

Refugee and judo athlete Yolande Mabika from Democratic Republic of Congo walks to a judo training session ahead of the Olympic games on July 28, 2016 in Rio de Janeiro. #

In this May 27, 2016 photo, Popole Misenga, a refugee and judo athlete from the Democratic Republic of Congo, jogs near his home in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, as he trains in hopes of making the cut for the first Olympic team of refugee athletes. Misenga is one of two judo athletes from Congo who say the chance to be part of history feels like a form of vindication, a collective recognition of both the suffering and aspirations of refugees everywhere. #

Popole Misenga, from the Democratic Republic of Congo, who now represents the team of Refugee Olympic Athletes. shows emotion when speaking about his family as he talks to the media at the Olympic Refugee Team Press Conference at the Barra Olympic Park on July 30, 2016. #

Athletes from South Sudan, part of the refugee athletes who qualified for the 2016 Rio Olympics, From left: Paulo Amotun Lokoro, Rose Nathike Lokonyen, Yiech Pur Biel, Anjelina Nada Lohalith, and James Nyang Chiengjiek, after a training session at their camp in Ngong township near Kenya's capital Nairobi, on June 9, 2016. #

Olympic refugee team swimmer Yusra Mardini trains at the Olympic Aquatics Stadium on July 28, 2016 in Rio de Janeiro. Mardini is a refugee of war-torn Syria. She survived part of the dangerous journey, from the Turkish coast across the Aegean Sea to Greece, swimming to help ferry an overloaded inflatable dinghy across open waters as most other passengers could not swim. #

South Sudan's athlete Anjelina Nada Lohalith (left) and James Nyang Chiengjiek (2nd tight) for the Refugee Olympic Team, take pictures with tourists in front of the statue of Christ the Redeemer on July 30, 2016. #