Tag: Eid Aljazairli

A Syrian refugee has stunned swimming experts by learning how to swim in just 12 months and is now training for the 2020 Olympics. Eid Aljazairli, who is 24 years old, nearly drowned trying to cross the Mediterranean to reach Europe in 2016. Now he is living with a British family and training at the…

Eid Aljazairli’s journey from Syria to the UK was surrounded by water, but as he sat in a boat that took him across the Mediterranean and to the UK, one thing was certain: He couldn’t swim. In fact, until January of this year, 24-year-old Eid had never been in a swimming pool before. It all…