Syrian refugee lights up Games

"IT'S very cool," said Yusra Mardini, long after she had won her heat in the 100m butterfly. "It is an incredible feeling to be here."For the 18-year-old from Damascus that was no exaggeration. As she stood at the side of the Olympic pool in Rio, slowly making her way past 100 television reporters anxious to elicit her views, her every step accompanied by the thrusting of microphones in her direction, it would have been no surprise if her mind drifted back to June last year.