Olympic refugee team swimmer Yusra Mardini signed with Under Armour and starred in a video published by the apparel company Friday, telling her story of fleeing Syria in August 2015.
“I shouldn’t be alive today,” Mardini said in the video. “I should have been killed by the bomb that hit the pool in Damascus. I should have drowned in the Mediterranean Sea. I should have been one of the many refugees who died along the way, but I am here, alive, because I kept moving. So many things tried to stop me, to break me. So many times something whispered, ‘This, now this, will defeat you.