For the first time since the games were inaugurated in Greece in 776 BC, a team of refugees will compete in the Olympic Games. Ten refugee athletes from Syria, South Sudan, Ethiopia, and the Congo will be in the newly-formed Refugee Olympic Team, competing in swimming, track and judo. When the team enters the Maracana Stadium, Rio de Janeiro, during the opening ceremony on 5 August, they will be representing not their country of origin but the millions of refugees worldwide. Their anthem, instead of a national song, will be the Olympian theme, and their banner will be the Olympic flag. Open Doors USA's director of communications Emily Fuentes says that having a refugee Olympic team is meaningful since it 'brings attention to the unprecedented refugee crisis that we're having in our world right now. For the refugees, having athletes to represent them in the Olympic Games will show that they still have a place in the world.'