Ep. 13: An Olympic Dream- A Journey from Athlete to Refugee

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At 17 Samia Yusuf Omar represented her country at the Beijing Olympics. Four years later she met a tragic ending. I take a look at Reinhard Kleist's graphic biography An Olympic Dream: The Story of Samia Yusuf Omar, muse on the thought provoking nature of his account and why graphic biographies work on a slightly different level to prose biographies.