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Syrian sisters find refuge in Berlin swim club

(10 Nov 2015) Two months ago Syrian sisters Sarah and Ysra Mardini were swimming for their lives after jumping off an inflatable boat that began taking on water whilst carrying refugees to Greece. Now they are ploughing down the length of a pool built for the 1936 Olympics in Berlin that has become a home away from home for two young women who were once among Syria's brightest swimming stars. The family moved around to avoid the fighting and tried to ensure their daughters could keep on swimming. Ysra, now 17, even represented Syria at the short-course world championships in Turkey in 2012. But as the war intensified fellow swimmers drifted away. The Mardini sisters eventually left Damascus in early August (2015), joining a fresh wave of Syrians who had given up hope of seeing the conflict end soon. They travelled to Lebanon, then Turkey, where they paid smugglers to take them to Greece. Turkish coastguards drove their boat back on the first attempt. The second time they boarded a small inflatable dinghy at dusk but within half an hour it was taking on water, hopelessly overloaded with 20 people on board. Ysra, Sarah and three others who were also strong swimmers jumped into the water in order to give the boat more buoyancy. For three hours they clung onto ropes hanging from the side until it reached shore on the Greek island of Lesbos. Eventually, the sisters made it to Austria and then Germany. Shortly after arriving in Berlin a local charity put them in touch with the Wasserfreunde Spandau 04, a swimming club based near their refugee shelter. Sven Spannekrebs, their coach, says the sisters are making amazing progress, though he is realistic about their prospects as athletes. But Ysra, who specialises in butterfly stroke, is aiming high. "Maybe when I learn German I will start school. I want to be a pilot. And with my swimming I want to reach the Olympics," she said. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...