hanan dacka, a 12-year-olda, syrian refugee, was chosen as an olympic torchbearer in the capital cityilia earlier this year. it was a symbolic moment greeted warmly by onlookers, just as an international audience has embraced the refugee athletes at the rio games. but will it last? filippo grandi hopes the world sees beyond these ten to the millions of others. >> and i hope the personal history of these ten athletes will illustrate this important characteristic of refugees thats is too often forgotten. because too often we concentrate on big numbers on the consequences of flows of millions of people and the impact that they have, and forget that each one of them is a person with a history that needs to be addressed as well. >> brown: a hope that is, is fo an olympic moment, that is, that goes beyond gold medals. i'm jeffrey brown for the pbs newshour. >> woodruff: finally, to another of our brief but spectacularla episodes where we ask interesting people to describe their passion. earlier we heard what was driving the recent chaos witnessed in the middle east. now we hear a more perso