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Day 12: Diver Tanya Watson makes 10m platform semi-finals while Cian O'Connor narrowly misses out on a shot at a showjumping medal
 

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‘I was at a crossroads: I could kill people or be killed myself – or I could flee to Ireland’ ‘We ended up in a beautiful country with its kind people’: Abd nour Karouz and his wife, Yassmine, with Kenan and Rayan. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw

New to the Parish: Abd nour Karouz arrived from Syria, via Lebanon, in 2018

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