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Rami Anis
Syrian swimmer (born 1991)
Rami Anis (born March 18, 1991)[2] is a Syrian swimmer, who now resides in Belgium, and representing a small Refugee Olympic Team (ROT) under the Olympic flag, at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.[3] As war took hold of his home town Aleppo, Anis fled to Turkey then, by dinghy to Greece and on to Belgium.[4]
His uncle Majad, who was a Syrian representative swimmer, inspired him to become a swimmer.[citation needed]