The Olympic torch passed through the refugee camp of Eleonas in Athens, where a disabled swimmer Syrian asylum in Greece carried the flame, and then the Acropolis before ending his tour of Greece today.
Ibrahim al Hussein, 27, who lost half of his right leg during a bombing raid in Syria, toured the Olympic flame refugee camp Eleonas, where 1,620 people live, mainly from Afghanistan, surrounded by a crowd of refugees , television cameras and journalists.
"This is a great honor for me and is dedicated to every Syrian and every Arab who has gone through many difficult situations," he told local media after concluding his tour, "my message to them is that they are not left in the fields refugees do nothing but go after their dreams. "
Al Hussein, who lives in Greece since 2014, when she arrived in an inflatable raft off the coast of Samos, began to practice swimming under the influence of his father from a young age, until he had to leave by the beginning of the war in Syria in 2011 .
Now Al Hussein, with refugee status, a member of the basketball team in wheelchair Marussi, neighbourhood of northern Athens, swimming and trains three times a week with ALMA, a non-profit Greek organization for disabled athletes.
Today Al Hussein nothing the 50 meter freestyle in 28 seconds, three seconds off his personal best before the bombing that took his leg.
Eleonas After passing the torch continued its journey to the center of Athens, via the central Syntagma Square outside parliament, and from there to the Acropolis, where an act against the Parthenon was done.
The torch began its journey after the lighting ceremony in Olympia, by several points of Greek geography, a journey that lasts six days and ends today at the stadium Panathinaicó, home of the Athens Games of 1896, of which the 120th anniversary this year is met.
The flame first visited the Ionian island of Zakynthos then stopover different cities and archaeological sites in the Peloponnese peninsula, from where he went to Igoumenitsa port of the west coast, and from there sailed to the island of Corfu, after which he swept the shores of lake Ioannina in the hands of Yurkas Seitaridis, former player of the national team of Greek football.
Latest cities he visited the torch before reaching the capital were Thessaloniki, the second largest city in Greece, Kavala and Marathon.
Tomorrow the Olympic torch will make its last trip through Greece, from where he will travel to Switzerland before flying to Brazil , host of the Olympic Games, which will start on August 5th with the opening ceremony at the Maracana country.
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