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Niccolò Campriani desires for refugee athletes in Tokyo Olympic 2020 Games

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Niccolò Campriani desires for refugee athletes in Tokyo Olympic 2020 Games

Three-time Olympic sport shooting champion Niccolò Campriani has started an ambitious challenge of coaching a group of novice refugee athletes and helping them qualify for the Tokyo Olympic 2020 Games.

The Italian won the 50 meters rifle three positions Olympic gold medal at London 2012 and Rio 2016 where he also won the 10m air rifle gold medal.

At the time I struggled to come to terms with that gold and I donated the difference in prize money to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).

“That experience had a huge impact on me and made me think about how I could use my status as an Olympian and the network I had grown for a cause that I feel close to my heart.”

Campriani moved to Lausanne in 2017 to become the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) sports intelligence manager and presented his refugee project proposal to the local immigration office at the end of 2018.

He started interviewing candidates and out of a restricted group of local refugees he selected three people a man named Mahdi and two women Khaoula and Luna.

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