Great Britain's London 2012 modern pentathlon silver medallist Samantha Murray was the subject of the first taste of the series, set to be broadcast on the Olympic Channel, as she travelled to the Zaatari Camp in Jordan.

The camp is home to 80,000 refugees and lies just six kilometres from the Syrian border.

During the four days she spent at Zaatari, Murray visited four different sporting clubs that provide refugees with a means of taking part in organised sport.

Murray attended a wrestling practice, a girls football match, a table tennis tournament and a taekwondo session as well discussing the lives and stories of those living there.

“Going in there I was quite naïve," Murray said in a question and answer session following the screening.

“I obviously knew I was going to a refugee camp but I had no idea about the charities that have been set up or how it was being run.

“Seeing how sport can transform people’s lives, help them to deal with the trauma and experiences and bring people together was just incredible.”

The series will be broadcast by the Olympic Channel but was made in co-operation with Independent Television News (ITN) Productions.

Each episode is roughly half an hour in length and will be broadcast each week on Thursdays.

The first episode went live immediately following the screening this evening.

Other episodes are set to feature Gus Kenworthy, the freestyle skier that represents the United States and won a slopestyle silver medal at Sochi 2014, visiting Naikvale in Uganda, and Thaïs Henríquez, the Spanish synchronised swimmer that won silver at Beijing 2008 and bronze at London 2012 in the team events, travelling to Colombia.

The fourth Olympian featured in the series is Sizwe Ndlovu of South Africa who travels to Greece.

Ndlovu won his country’s first Olympic rowing title when he won gold as part of the men’s lightweight coxless four at London 2012.

The Olympic Channel was launched on August 21 as a key part of the Olympic Movement’s push to engage more young people and spark interest in Olympism all year-round.

The Channel is widely seen as the most significant development to come out of International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach’s Olympic Agenda 2020 reform initiative.

IOC members unanimously approved the Channel - which has a fully-funded budget of $490 million (£370 million/€443 million) for its first seven years - at the 127th IOC Session in Monte Carlo.

Greg Groggel, the Senior Commissioning Editor at the Olympic Channel, explained that programming such as this, targeting a more human angle, is something it would like to continue into the future.

“I think this is a good representation of what exactly we are trying to do,” he told insidethegames.

“To be able to connect to that wider audience we need to be telling these human stories.

“This topic is something that feels very relevant today. 

"We do not want to always be looking back at the last Games.

“There is a lot of meaning and message behind what we have seen here today.

“We are trying to make sure we take a very broad look at programming and creating things that feel very right and very relevant for the young target audience we are trying to hit.”

The first episode of the series can be found here.