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Running for My Life: One Lost Boy’s Journey from the Killing Fields of Sudan to the Olympic Games

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The inspiring true story of Lopez Lomong, a Sudanese “lost boy” who achieved his dream of?becoming an American citizen and Olympic athlete.He was once abducted. He was once beaten. And he was once nearly forced to turn out to be a boy solider in his war-torn hometown, Sudan. But he escaped in the night, ran three days, and was once taken into a refugee camp in Kenya. He never owned a pair of shoes. He never owned a pen?or paper and did schoolwork in the dust with his fingertips. His boyhood was once the day-to-day struggle of an orphan, and every day he would run an eighteen-mile lap around the refugee camp just to play a game of soccer. In his wildest dreams, Lopez Lomong couldn’t even conceive that Nike would someday be his official sponsor, that he would graduate from college, and that he would represent his new home and bear the American flag in the Summer Olympics.Running for My Life is Lopez Lomong’s harrowing story of loss, overcoming, triumph, and redemption. It’s the once-in-a-lifetime story of a Sudanese lost boy who became an American citizen and Olympic athlete. His life is a powerful picture of the truth that we will be able to overcome, that what seems out of reach is within our grasp if we’d imagine and if we’d only try.

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