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PHOTO NBI facebook</figcaption></figure><div style="border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 20px; list-style: none; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">The extraordinary Nile Council of Ministers (Nile-COM) meeting in Entebbe has rejected demands by Egypt for greater control of activities related to the flow of the river Nile.</div><div style="border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 20px; list-style: none; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Uganda, Burundi, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, South Sudan and Sudan were unanimous on Monday in seeking a revision of proposals that Egypt, led by Minister of Water Resources and Irrigation Mohamed Abdel-Ati, had submitted to Nile-COM. Nile-COM is the supreme policy organ of the Nile Basin Initiative (NBI).</div><div style="border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 20px; list-style: none; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">According to a statement from the Bile Basin Initiative, Egypt took note of the report on the responses by Nile-Com and asked for more time to study, consult and report back to Nile-COM on their formal position.</div><div style="border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 20px; list-style: none; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Chairman of the Nile-COM Cheptoris, who is also Uganda’s Minister of Water and Environment, told the press after their meeting that their position is that all the countries have equal rights over the water under the Co-operative Framework Agreement (CFA).</div><div style="border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 20px; list-style: none; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">“We have rejected demands by the Egyptian government to take full control of the Nile’s water,” said Sam Cheptoris, who is also Uganda’s Minister of Water and Environment. “The other countries also have a say on how the water is used, as they have growing populations that need to use the water as much as the Egyptians.”</div><div class="insert-post-ads" style="border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; float: left; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: none; padding: 0px; width: 620px;"><ins class="adsbygoogle" data-ad-client="ca-pub-2131429619341037" data-ad-slot="5089092048" style="border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; height: 100px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; width: 320px;"></ins></div><div style="border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 20px; list-style: none; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">The purpose of Monday’s meeting was to facilitate the resumption of Egypt’s full participation in NBI activities that had been frozen since 2010.</div><div style="border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 20px; list-style: none; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">The meeting chaired by Cheptoris, was attended by Ministers in charge of Water Affairs from Burundi, Egypt, Rwanda, South Sudan and Sudan. The ministers received a report on the concerns of Egypt and accordingly responded to those concerns.</div><div style="border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 20px; list-style: none; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">The Republic of Kenya was represented by the Principal Secretary for Water and Irrigation, while the United Republic of Tanzania was represented by the Deputy High Commissioner to Uganda. DR Congo did not participate.</div><figure class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_33459" style="border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic; line-height: 18px; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 5px; max-width: 100%; outline: none; padding: 0px; width: 640px;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-33459 tie-appear" height="324" src="https://www.independent.co.ug/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/NBI-kampala.jpg" style="border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; list-style: none; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; opacity: 1; outline: none; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.4s ease-in-out; vertical-align: middle;" width="640" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text" style="border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #202021; display: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Egyptian officials (right) at the NBI extra-ordinary meeting in Entebbe, Uganda. The Egyptians have asked for more time to consult on their stand on use of the River Nile. PHOTO NBI facebook</figcaption></figure><div style="border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 20px; list-style: none; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Egypt froze its operations in NBI in 2010 after six out of 10 upstream states signed a Cooperative Framework Agreement (CFA) to seek more water from the River Nile — a move strongly opposed by Egypt and Sudan.</div><div style="border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 20px; list-style: none; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">The Nile Basin Initiative has ten permanent members — Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Sudan, South Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda. Eritrea has observer status.</div><div style="border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 20px; list-style: none; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">The upstream countries said they were “tired of first getting permission from Egypt before using river Nile water for any development project like irrigation”, as required by a treaty signed during the colonial era between Egypt and Britain in 1929. The new agreement is designed to eventually replace the Nile Basin Initiative.</div><div style="border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 20px; list-style: none; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">One key recent concern by Egypt is the construction of the Grand Ethiopian Dam, which when complete will be Africa’s biggest hydroelectric dam. Some experts argue that filling and operating the dam will reduce the amount of water that flows downstream to Egypt.</div><figure class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_33461" style="border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic; line-height: 18px; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 5px; max-width: 100%; outline: none; padding: 0px; width: 640px;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-33461 tie-appear" height="427" src="https://www.independent.co.ug/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Ethiopia-dam.jpg" style="border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; list-style: none; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; opacity: 1; outline: none; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.4s ease-in-out; vertical-align: middle;" width="640" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text" style="border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #202021; display: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">A photo taken on March 31, 2015 shows the Grand Renaissance Dam under construction near the Sudanese-Ethiopian border. Ethiopia began diverting the Blue Nile in May 2013 to build the 6,000 megawatt dam, which will be Africa’s largest. Egypt, heavily reliant for millennia on the Nile for agriculture and drinking water, feared that the Grand Renaissance Dam would decrease its water supply. AFP PHOTO</figcaption></figure><div style="border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 20px; list-style: none; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><strong style="border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">No reason for fight over water – Museveni</strong></div><div style="border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 20px; list-style: none; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Museveni earlier this month, suggested that because the region’s ministers were failing to resolve the dispute over the waters of the River Nile, a Summit of Heads of State will be considered to address the issue.</div><div style="border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 20px; list-style: none; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">He was speaking at a joint press conference with visiting Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn at State House Entebbe after bilateral talks early this month.</div><div style="border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 20px; list-style: none; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Museveni clarified that Uganda had not yet ratified the “Nile Agreement” on the use of the River Nile waters, as it is pursuing a maximum consensus on the issue. He said the disagreement between Egypt and other nations on the River Nile is either due to misinformation or not enough discussion.</div><figure class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_30066" style="border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic; line-height: 18px; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 5px; max-width: 100%; outline: none; padding: 0px; width: 640px;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-30066 tie-appear" height="279" src="https://www.independent.co.ug/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Uganda-Ethiopia-2-1.jpg" style="border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; list-style: none; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; opacity: 1; outline: none; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.4s ease-in-out; vertical-align: middle;" width="640" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text" style="border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #202021; display: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Museeni meets Ethiopian Prime Minister Desalegn in Uganda recently.</figcaption></figure><div style="border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><div style="border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 20px; list-style: none; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">“The problem of Africa is not water. The problem of Africa is confusion, under-development and ideological disorientation. Instead of quarreling, we should agree on the Nile, develop the population so that we do not waste the water,” Museveni said.</div><div style="border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 20px; list-style: none; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Responding to a question from the press on the “Nile Agreement”, Museveni said “I have not yet ratified because I want to dialogue. To get a consensus, it is better we have more dialogue, more talking. If you preserve backwardness in Uganda, how does that help the Nile?”.</div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4280001565366629809.post-66810416972185871902017-03-29T08:21:00.001-07:002017-03-29T08:23:23.331-07:0042 world cross country championships Kampala Uganda<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Washington, DC </strong><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">- </strong>When long-distance runners are in their stride, thoughts weave from pace and distance, to discomfort and the environment.</div>
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For Feyisa Lilesa, the Oromo marathoner who won a silver medal for Ethiopia at the Rio Olympics, his thoughts go to friends and family dying and disappearing in anti-government protests.</div>
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Lilesa grew up running 7km to school and back in his home state of Oromia, the protest epicentre, and it is hard for him to forget where he came from.</div>
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That is why he used his Olympic debut to protest against his government, joining the ranks of athletes like Americans Tommie Smith and John Carlos, who gave a black power salute on the podium of the 1968 Summer Games.</div>
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"Even when I practised, personally my legs were running but my mind was also racing, preoccupied by the suffering all around me," he told Al Jazeera's <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nxkqtd1GdSc" style="background: transparent; color: rgb(250, 144, 0) !important; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: bottom;" target="_blank">The Stream </a> on Monday in Washington, DC, where he is contemplating whether he can ever return to Ethiopia.</div>
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"All this has been on my mind for a very, very long time."</div>
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Oromo youth tired of being Ethiopia's largest ethnic group yet treated like second-class citizens, have been protesting for nearly a year.</div>
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They began when the government floated a plan to expand the capital into land worked by Oromo farmers, then continued after security forces used live bullets to tamp down the unrest.</div>
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Lilesa says his wife's brother went missing in one of the protests, and his friend died in a suspicious <a class="internallink" href="http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/09/160905195308734.html" style="background: transparent; color: rgb(250, 144, 0) !important; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: bottom;" target="_self">fire at a prison </a>where opposition figures were held.</div>
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On track for the Olympics, the 26-year-old knew he could not show support in the streets, but he could bring the Oromo cause to an even bigger stage.</div>
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"As soon as I was selected for the Rio Olympic team, I decided if I won and got a good result, I wanted to use that opportunity to raise awareness and the voice of my people."</div>
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Lilesa says that he did not share his plans with his family because he did not want to worry them. They would have to find out when the rest of the world did.</div>
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As he neared the finish line in the men’s marathon event on August 21 in Rio, Lilesa crossed his wrists in an "X" above his head, a sign of Oromo solidarity.</div>
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"I knew this was being live broadcast around the world, and I wanted to show that the protests in Ethiopia were peaceful just like my sign was," he recalls.</div>
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"As I was looking to the left and to the right, the place is a stadium with people in the stands, and they thought this was just a sign of celebration, winning the silver and celebrating."</div>
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Lilesa says Kenyan runner Eliud Kipchoge, who won the gold, asked what he was doing and then said he was sorry Lilesa had been carrying such stress.</div>
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The stress has only increased.</div>
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After his race, Lilesa told the press that his government would kill him if he returned home, a claim Getachew Reda, Ethiopia's communications minister, laughed off.</div>
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"He's making a big fuss out of nothing," Reda told Al Jazeera by telephone from Addis Ababa on Sunday, the Ethiopian New Year.</div>
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"I think that wasn't good thinking, but he's entitled to do whatever he wants to do."</div>
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Lilesa wants to explore his options in the US.</div>
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He stayed in Brazil two and a half weeks after the Olympics ended, waiting for a US visa for people with extraordinary skills or abilities.</div>
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It came with unusual speed.</div>
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He is now in Washington where he kicked off a media blitz on Monday wearing a slim black suit with white piping, his hair in a medium-length afro.</div>
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He is telling the press that he is not seeking asylum, that he will spend the next few months training out West where the altitude is higher, while he figures out what is best for him and his family.</div>
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In a sit-down interview with Al Jazeera, he relied on a translator to express the grief he feels being separated from his wife, five-year-old daughter and three-year-old son.</div>
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"Every time I call my wife, they want to know when I'm coming. They ask me, 'What are you up to, when are you coming home?' This makes me emotional inside, so even when I call on Skype, I have to fight back tears."</div>
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His children have a better life than he did growing up because of the comforts that being an elite runner in Ethiopia brings.</div>
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The irony, he says, is that growing up poor, working on a farm, living far from school, is what grooms the best runners.</div>
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"The kind of living environment that leads people into running is not the kind of comfortable living they have right now."</div>
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But the environment still is not what Lilesa wants for his son and daughter, or any other Oromo child growing up in Ethiopia.</div>
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He looks to the US, an ally of Ethiopia, as a better example of what his country could be.</div>
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"I heard Obama making a statement when there were children being killed in America by gun violence and he cried on the national TV. That’s the kind of government you have. But on the other side in Ethiopia, we have a government that is killing its own people, children as young as nine years old," Lilesa said.</div>
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"The freedoms Americans enjoy here, and the kind of government they have, that's what the American government should be pushing Ethiopia to do."</div>
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US President Obama got flak last year when he praised Ethiopia for its "democratically elected" government after the ruling party won 100 percent of parliamentary seats.</div>
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Even Getachew Reda, the Ethiopian minister, told Al Jazeera’s <a class="internallink" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nxkqtd1GdSc" style="background: transparent; color: rgb(250, 144, 0) !important; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: bottom;" target="_blank">The Stream </a>he is "not particularly proud" of that statistic.</div>
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Reda considers his government a work in progress and insists "some officials will have to be removed for having failed their people".</div>
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The assurance does not impress Lilesa, who says that he does not trust Reda or anyone else in the Ethiopian government.</div>
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What it would take to bring him home, he says, is real change.</div>
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"I want the superiority of one ethnic group to end. If everyone does not have equal power, their different political, religious views respected, in the future, there will not be sustainable peace in the country."</div>
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With a temporary US visa, and an unknown future, little seems sustainable for the runner right now.</div>
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But he is an endurance athlete, familiar with the long game.</div>
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His hero, after all, is Oromo marathon runner Abebe Bikila, who won the gold medal in the 1960 Summer Olympics while running bare foot.</div>
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Lilesa says that he does not consider himself a hero, but he understands why some people call him that.</div>
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"They carry around a deep wound, and when a doctor touches a wound, it makes you feel better. I sort of rubbed their wounds."</div>
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<header style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 900px; padding: 20px 0px; position: relative;"><h1 class=" " itemprop="headline" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 48px; line-height: 52px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; padding: 0px;"><img alt="ethiopia-tamiru-demisse.jpg" src="http://www.independent.co.uk/s3/files/styles/article_small/public/thumbnails/image/2016/09/12/12/ethiopia-tamiru-demisse.jpg" /></h1><div class="intro" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Fira Sans"; font-size: 20px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;">1500m runner echoes protest of fellow countryman Feyisa Lilesa, who has now fled to the US</div></div><ul class="caption meta inline-pipes-list" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #888888; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; list-style: none; margin: 20px 0px; padding: 0px;"><li class="author" itemprop="author" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person" style="box-sizing: border-box; float: left; margin: 0px 6px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span itemprop="name" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/author/adam-withnall" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; color: #ec1a2e; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" title="Adam Withnall">Adam Withnall</a></span> Africa Correspondent </li>
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<div class="article-wrapper clearfix" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin: auto; max-width: 900px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><div class="main-content-column" style="box-sizing: border-box; float: left; margin: 0px 40px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; width: 560px;"><div class="text-wrapper" itemprop="articleBody" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 900px; padding: 0px;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #281e1e; font-family: "Indy Serif"; font-size: 19px; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">A runner has become the latest Ethiopian athlete to stage a political protest in Rio, after he crossed the finish line in a 1500m event at the Paralympics.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #281e1e; font-family: "Indy Serif"; font-size: 19px; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">Tamiru Demisse, who was competing in the final of the T13 race for visually impaired runners, crossed his arms above his head as he crossed the line in second place, taking silver behind Algeria’s Abdellatif Baka.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #281e1e; font-family: "Indy Serif"; font-size: 19px; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">The crossed-arms symbol is in reference to the political persecution of the Oromo ethnic group by the government back home, and echoed a similar gesture made by Feyisa Lilesa at the end of the marathon event in the Olympics.</div><br /><br />
<figure class="mediaembed" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #281e1e; font-family: "Fira Sans", Helvetica, Arial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/9ODtmI-cyv4" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;" width="560"></iframe></figure><br /><br />
<div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #281e1e; font-family: "Indy Serif"; font-size: 19px; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">Unlike Feyisa, who was reminded by officials that the International Olympic Committee frowns upon political gestures at the Games, Tamiru also repeated the gesture during the ceremony to receive his medal.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #281e1e; font-family: "Indy Serif"; font-size: 19px; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">Last month, Feyisa explained that he he conducted his protest in response to the killing of the Oromo people, saying the government was “killing our people”.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #281e1e; font-family: "Indy Serif"; font-size: 19px; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">He has now travelled to the US, after a crowd-funding campaign to support him and his family raised its target of $150,000. He said if he returned to Ethiopia “they will kill me… or if not kill me, they will put me in prison”.</div><div class="inline-block inline-block-related-single inline-block-left" data-nid="/news/people/olympics-rio-2016-ethiopia-feyisa-lilesa-fails-to-return-government-olympic-protest-a7206851.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #281e1e; float: left; font-family: "Fira Sans", Helvetica, Arial; margin: 0px 20px 20px -140px; padding: 0px; width: 280px;"><a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/olympics-rio-2016-ethiopia-feyisa-lilesa-fails-to-return-government-olympic-protest-a7206851.html" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 1px 3px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #281e1e; display: block; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><img src="https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/styles/readmore_card/public/thumbnails/image/2016/08/21/20/feyisa-lilesa.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; width: 280px;" /></a><br /><br />
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The 26-year-old later repeated the gesture during the race’s medal ceremony and at a press conference, saying he was afraid to go back to his homeland.</div><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 1.7rem; letter-spacing: -0.02rem; margin: 0rem auto 1.4em; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;">On Friday the BBC reported that he had arrived in the US. The Ethiopian government has been accused by Amnesty International and other rights groups of brutally cracking down on dissent and Lilesa failed to return to the country last month, despite assurances from the country’s Information Minister Getachew Red that he had nothing to fear and would be welcomed home as a hero.</div><div class="jp-slot" id="Ad_slot_teads" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; height: auto; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; width: 620px;"></div><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 1.7rem; letter-spacing: -0.02rem; margin: 0rem auto 1.4em; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;">However when Ethiopian sports officials congratulated the team, but made no mention of Lilesa’s silver medal achievement – one of only eight medals won by the country’s team.</div><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 1.7rem; letter-spacing: -0.02rem; margin: 0rem auto 1.4em; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;">Speaking after the race, Feyisa said: “If not kill me, the will put me in prison. I have not decided yet, but maybe I will move to another country”.</div><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 1.7rem; letter-spacing: -0.02rem; margin: 0rem auto 1.4em; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;">His family later said the runner wanted to claim asylum in the US and a crowdfunding campaign, which has raised £113,000, was set up to pay his legal fees and support his family in Ethiopia.</div><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 1.7rem; letter-spacing: -0.02rem; margin: 0rem auto 1.4em; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;">The runner is from Oromia – home to the country’s largest ethnic group, the Oromo people – where in November 2015 more than 400 people were killed by security forces.</div><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 1.7rem; letter-spacing: -0.02rem; margin: 0rem auto 1.4em; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;">The clashes came amid complaints over social and political marginalisation by the 35 million-strong Oromo community, Human Rights Watch reported.</div><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 1.7rem; letter-spacing: -0.02rem; margin: 0rem auto 1.4em; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;">A spokesperson for the Ethiopian embassy in London, which has reportedly been targeted by Oromo protesters in recent days. told i that the claimed death toll was “inaccurate” .</div><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 1.7rem; letter-spacing: -0.02rem; margin: 0rem auto 1.4em; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;">In recent weeks violence has spread to the Amhara region amid increasing instability, and locals have been shaving their heads as a sign of solidarity with jailed opposition leaders.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4280001565366629809.post-15806230433883585612016-08-24T05:08:00.001-07:002016-08-24T05:08:33.293-07:00Ethiopian Runner Won’t Return Home, but Doesn’t Know Where to Go - The New York Times<header class="story-header" id="story-header" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: nyt-cheltenham, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 16px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; position: relative;"><div class="story-meta " id="story-meta" style="margin-bottom: 20px;"><h1 class="headline" id="headline" itemprop="headline" style="color: black; font-feature-settings: 'kern' 1; font-size: 2.125rem; font-style: italic; line-height: 2.375rem; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><br /></h1><div class="story-meta-footer" id="story-meta-footer" style="align-items: center; 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"He doesn’t want to go to Ethiopia, he wants to go to another country. The U.S. would be very good but right now we just don’t know where he’s going to go. He was very happy after winning but also a bit confused.”</div><div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="196" data-total-count="891" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 1.0625rem; line-height: 1.625rem; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 75px; max-width: none; width: 570px;">By raising his arms and crossing them in an X in front of his face as he crossed the finish line Sunday, Mr. Lilesa, 26, has crossed the Ethiopian government, one of the most repressive in Africa.</div><div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="405" data-total-count="1296" id="story-continues-1" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 1.0625rem; line-height: 1.625rem; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 75px; max-width: none; width: 570px;">His gesture, which he repeated during an award ceremony on Sunday after the race, was the most visible in<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/13/world/africa/ethiopia-protests.html" style="color: #326891;"> a growing w</a><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/13/world/africa/ethiopia-protests.html" style="color: #326891;">ave </a><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/13/world/africa/ethiopia-protests.html" style="color: #326891;">of protests</a> in recent months against Ethiopia’s government. This unusual burst of protests has erupted across Ethiopia, especially in Oromia, the region from which Mr. Lilesa hails, and where the gesture of raised arms crossed in front of one’s face has become a sign of defiance.</div><div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="356" data-total-count="1652" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 1.0625rem; line-height: 1.625rem; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 75px; max-width: none; width: 570px;">Tens of thousands of protesters have been jailed and <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/17/world/africa/lethal-government-force-ethiopian-region.html?_r=0" style="color: #326891;">hundreds</a><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/17/world/africa/lethal-government-force-ethiopian-region.html?_r=0" style="color: #326891;"> have been killed</a>, according to Human Rights Watch. Mr. Lilesa said in interviews after his race that he believed that if he were to return home, he, too, would be punished. 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</ul></div></div></div></figcaption></figure><div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="93" data-total-count="1745" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 1.0625rem; line-height: 1.625rem; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 75px; max-width: none; width: 570px;">Mr. Rosa said that Mr. Lilesa was a serious young man who “doesn’t like to play games.”</div><div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="346" data-total-count="2091" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 1.0625rem; line-height: 1.625rem; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 75px; max-width: none; width: 570px;">Some sports analysts have speculated that Mr. Lilesa, who <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/22/sports/olympics/rio-olympics-mens-marathon-live-results.html" style="color: #326891;">finished the Olympic marathon in 2:09:54</a>, and has <a href="http://www.marathonguide.com/history/records/alltimelist.cfm?Gen=m&Sort=Time" style="color: #326891;">one of the 50 fastest times in history</a>, might chose to run for another country, such as Bahrain or Qatar. The Gulf states have <a href="http://www.okayafrica.com/sports/rio-2016-scandal-how-countries-poach-african-players-to-win-olympic-medals/" style="color: #326891;">wooed </a><a href="http://www.okayafrica.com/sports/rio-2016-scandal-how-countries-poach-african-players-to-win-olympic-medals/" style="color: #326891;">many other African-born athletes</a> with promises of large pay days if they win international competitions.</div><div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="147" data-total-count="2238" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 1.0625rem; line-height: 1.625rem; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 75px; max-width: none; width: 570px;">Mr. Rosa said that Mr. Lilesa, who <a href="http://www.letsrun.com/news/2016/02/2016-tokyo-marathon-recap-feyisa-lilesa-20656-wins-denies-dickson-chumba-share-wmm-title-helah-kiprop-wins-first-major-course-record-22127-moves-tie-atop-awmm-standings/" style="color: #326891;">won the Tokyo marathon this year</a> and has a contract with Nike, did not make his protest in an effort to cash in.</div><div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="267" data-total-count="2505" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 1.0625rem; line-height: 1.625rem; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 75px; max-width: none; width: 570px;">“He didn’t plan at all to go to another country,” Mr. Rosa said. “I don’t know even when he decided to do this. He didn’t say anything to me about it. I was surprised. And you don’t do something like this for money. He did this to defend his country.”</div><div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="216" data-total-count="2721" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 1.0625rem; line-height: 1.625rem; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 75px; max-width: none; width: 570px;">In an interview with journalists Sunday in Rio after his race, Mr. Lilesa said<a href="http://www.letsrun.com/news/2016/08/bravest-olympian-rio-ethiopias-feyisa-lilesa-speaks-killings-oromo-protesters-ethiopia-earning-olympic-silver-marathon/" style="color: #326891;">he did not discuss his protest beforehand</a> with his agent, coaches, teammates or his family. His wife and two children remain in Ethiopia.</div><div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="447" data-total-count="3168" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 1.0625rem; line-height: 1.625rem; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 75px; max-width: none; width: 570px;">If Mr. Lilesa wants to apply for asylum in the United States, it would be difficult to do that while in Brazil. He might first have to get asylum in Brazil and then apply to the American authorities for so-called humanitarian parole. Under that program, which is used sparingly, often for people in danger, Mr. Lilesa would be allowed to travel to the United States and stay temporarily. Once on American soil, he could apply for political asylum.</div><div class="story-body-text story-content" data-node-uid="1" data-para-count="245" data-total-count="3413" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 1.0625rem; line-height: 1.625rem; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 75px; max-width: none; width: 570px;">Mr. Lilesa has became a sensation on social media. As of Tuesday night, nearly $100,000 <a href="https://www.gofundme.com/2kykuuxs?rcid=5b8ad2bc683a11e69571bc764e04c5a7" style="color: #326891;">had been raised for him via a crowdsourcing</a> website. “We assure you all the money collected will go to support this Oromo/Ethiopian hero,” the site said.</div><div class="addenda" id="addenda" style="margin-bottom: 30px; width: 570px;"><div class="story-addendum story-content theme-correction" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 1rem; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.4375rem; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 75px; margin-right: 0px; max-width: none; width: 570px;"><span style="font-weight: 700;">Correction: August 23, 2016 </span><br /><div style="font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.4375rem; margin-bottom: 1em;">Because of an editing error, an earlier version of this article misstated when Feyisa Lilesa made his second protest gesture. 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line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Rule 50 of the Olympic charter bans political displays or protests and the IOC say they are gathering information about the case.</div><hr class="story-body__line" style="background-color: #dbdbdb; border: 0px; color: #dbdbdb; height: 1px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 16px; width: 591.563px;" /><h2 class="story-body__crosshead" style="border: 0px; color: #1e1e1e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 18px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">More on Ethiopia's unrest:</h2><figure class="media-landscape no-caption full-width" style="border: 0px; clear: both; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 24px -24.6406px 0px 0px; 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</ul><hr class="story-body__line" style="background-color: #dbdbdb; border: 0px; color: #dbdbdb; height: 1px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 16px; width: 591.563px;" /><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The BBC's Emmanuel Igunza in neighbouring Kenya says Mr Feyisa is being described by some as the bravest Olympian at the Rio Games for his anti-government protest, but he now faces the prospect of a life in exile.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Within hours of his protest, <a class="story-body__link-external" href="https://www.gofundme.com/2kykuuxs?rcid=5b8ad2bc683a11e69571bc764e04c5a7" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(17, 103, 168, 0.298039); 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font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"We raised the bar to $25,000 and that too was exceeded in a few hours,"<a class="story-body__link-external" href="https://www.facebook.com/sungashe/posts/10154451853589483?pnref=story" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(17, 103, 168, 0.298039); border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Solomon Ungashe wrote on Facebook</a>.</div><figure class="media-landscape has-caption full-width" style="background-color: #111111; border: 0px; clear: both; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; 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My relatives are in prison and if they talk about democratic rights they are killed," he said.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A legal team hired by Ethiopians in US is headed to Rio to try and help Mr Feyisa, who has a wife and two children in Ethiopia, with a request to seek asylum in the US.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">But Information Minister Getachew Reda told the BBC the government had no reason to arrest him and it respected his political opinion.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">He also said none of Mr Feyisa's relatives had been jailed over the Oromo protests.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Ethiopian state-owned television station EBC Channel 3 covered the race live, including the finish, but did not repeat the clip in subsequent bulletins - focussing instead on the winner Kenya's Eliud Kipchoge.</div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4280001565366629809.post-19990219488086529632016-08-22T01:48:00.001-07:002016-08-22T01:58:45.524-07:00Ethiopian Marathoner’s Protest Puts Him at Odds With His Government - The New York Times<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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As Feyisa Lilesa of <a class="meta-loc" href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/ethiopia/index.html?inline=nyt-geo" style="color: #326891;" title="More news and information about Ethiopia.">Ethiopia</a> crossed the finish line in his silver-medal marathon run at the Rio Olympics on Sunday, he raised his arms and crossed them in an X, a gesture of protest against his country’s government that he said could get him killed if he returned home.</div>
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He is uncertain where he will go next, and what will become of his wife and two children in Ethiopia.</div>
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“If I go back to Ethiopia, maybe they will kill me,” he said at a news conference after the race, <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/sport/olympics/rio-2016/olympics-athletics/rio-olympics-2016-ethiopian-wins-silver-but-is-too-scared-to-return-home-20160821-gqxu4i.html" style="color: #326891;">according to The Sydney Morning Herald</a>. “If I am not killed, maybe they will put me in prison.”</div>
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An accomplished distance runner who has <a href="http://www.marathonguide.com/history/records/alltimelist.cfm?Gen=m&Sort=Time" style="color: #326891;">one of the 50 fastest marathon times</a>, he defied <a href="https://stillmed.olympic.org/Documents/olympic_charter_en.pdf" style="color: #326891;">an Olympic prohibition</a> on political demonstrations to make his statement, raising his arms again in protest at the race’s medal ceremony. He quickly attracted supporters on social media.</div>
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Antigovernment protests in Ethiopia, an American ally that has experienced stability and a growing economy over the last decade, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/13/world/africa/ethiopia-protests.html" style="color: #326891;">have been growing recently</a>, with thousands of people demanding political changes.</div>
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Human rights groups say the protests have been met by brutal crackdowns by the government, including the shooting deaths of unarmed protesters. A Human Rights Watch report in June <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/17/world/africa/lethal-government-force-ethiopian-region.html" style="color: #326891;">estimated that more than 400 people had been killed</a> in seven months, almost all of them civilians.</div>
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Protesters in the Oromo ethnic group, Ethiopia’s largest, say they feel marginalized. The Tigrayan ethnic group makes up about 6 percent of the population but dominates in politics, the military and commerce.</div>
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“The Ethiopian government is killing my people, so I stand with all protests anywhere, as Oromo is my tribe,” Mr. Lilesa said, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/08/21/this-ethiopian-runner-just-won-silver-in-the-marathon-and-then-he-led-a-protest-of-his-government-that-could-land-him-in-jail/" style="color: #326891;">according to The Washington Post</a>. “My relatives are in prison, and if they talk about democratic rights they are killed.”</div>
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He told reporters he did not know where he would go next, but mentioned Kenya and the United States as possibilities, <a href="http://www.letsrun.com/news/2016/08/bravest-olympian-rio-ethiopias-feyisa-lilesa-speaks-killings-oromo-protesters-ethiopia-earning-olympic-silver-marathon/" style="color: #326891;">according to a video from LetsRun.com</a>.</div>
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font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 8px; min-height: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Burka told the USADA he had a prescription for prednisone and was using it in small doses, but failed to disclose it on his pre-race Therapeutic Use Exemption forms.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 8px; min-height: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Burka's Texas marathon victory had extended Ethiopia's winning streak in Houston to eight races.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 8px; min-height: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">He has won five career marathons, including Los Angeles and Sydney in 2014.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 8px; min-height: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">His personal best is a 2:08.12 he posted while finishing runner-up in the 2015 Houston race.</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4280001565366629809.post-45111512771722639902016-08-14T23:52:00.001-07:002016-08-14T23:52:57.701-07:00In The Marathons, Look For Duels Between The Kenyans And Ethiopians : The Torch : NPR<div class="storytitle" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; float: none; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 140.094px; padding: 0px 15px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;"><h1 style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Gotham SSm", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 3.5rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; 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He's the favorite in the men's marathon in Rio." class="img" src="http://media.npr.org/assets/img/2016/08/11/kipchoge-8-11-16_wide-d34bda48b227d95d1b97863142250a0c77b2f804-s800-c85.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: auto; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; max-width: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 763.906px;" title="Eliud Kipchoge of Kenya wins the London Marathon last year. He's the favorite in the men's marathon in Rio." /></div><div class="credit-caption" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #767676; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: auto; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="caption" style="background: transparent; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: none; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 763.906px;"><div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.2rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 2px; max-width: 55.7em; padding: 12px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Eliud Kipchoge of Kenya wins the London Marathon last year. He's the favorite in the men's marathon in Rio.</div></div><span class="credit" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: italic; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Kirsty Wigglesworth/AP</span></div></div><div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; float: none; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.7rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.70588; margin-bottom: 1.17647em; max-width: 680px; padding: 0px 15px; position: static; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;">The Kenyans vs. the Ethiopians.</div><div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; float: none; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.7rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.70588; margin-bottom: 1.17647em; max-width: 680px; padding: 0px 15px; position: static; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;">Like many distance events at the Rio Games, and Olympics past, it often boils down to a race featuring the indefatigable runners from these two African neighbors.</div><div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; float: none; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.7rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.70588; margin-bottom: 1.17647em; max-width: 680px; padding: 0px 15px; position: static; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;">And that's a likely scenario in the women's marathon this Sunday, and the men's next Sunday, the final day of the Summer Olympics.</div><div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; float: none; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.7rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.70588; margin-bottom: 1.17647em; max-width: 680px; padding: 0px 15px; position: static; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;">In every men's and women's marathon since 1996, at least one Kenyan or Ethiopian has made it to the medal stand, with one exception. And that exception proves the rule.</div><div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; float: none; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.7rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.70588; margin-bottom: 1.17647em; max-width: 680px; padding: 0px 15px; position: static; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;">At the 2004 Games in Athens, no Kenyan or Ethiopian man made the podium in the marathon, but the silver medalist was American <a href="http://www.si.com/olympics/2016/02/13/us-olympic-marathon-trials-meb-keflezighi-oldest-olympian-distance-runner" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #5076b8; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Meb Keflezighi</a>, who was born in Ethiopia in 1975 (His birthplace of Asmara is now the capital of Eritrea, which broke away from Ethiopia in 1993, after he and his family had left as refugees).</div><div class="bucketwrap image large" id="res489964309" style="border: 0px; 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border-top: none; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 763.906px;"><div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.2rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 2px; max-width: 55.7em; padding: 12px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Helah Kiprop of Kenya, Eunice Jepkirui Kirwa of Bahrain and Mare Dibaba of Ethiopia enter a cooling station during the Women's Marathon final during day nine of the 15th IAAF World Athletics Championships Beijing 2015 at Beijing National Stadium on August 30, 2015 in Beijing, China.</div></div><span class="credit" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: italic; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Andy Lyons/Getty Images</span></div></div><div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; float: none; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.7rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.70588; margin-bottom: 1.17647em; max-width: 680px; padding: 0px 15px; position: static; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Women's Marathon</span></div><div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; float: none; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.7rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.70588; margin-bottom: 1.17647em; max-width: 680px; padding: 0px 15px; position: static; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;">In the streets of Rio on Sunday morning, Kenyans <a href="https://www.iaaf.org/athletes/kenya/helah-jelagat-kiprop-235928" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #5076b8; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Helah Kiprop</a> and <a href="https://www.iaaf.org/athletes/kenya/jemima-jelagat-sumgong-224362" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #5076b8; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Jemima Sumgong</a> lead their team. Kiprop won the Tokyo Marathon in February and Sumgong took the London Marathon.</div><div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; float: none; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.7rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.70588; margin-bottom: 1.17647em; max-width: 680px; padding: 0px 15px; position: static; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;">The top-rated Ethiopian is <a href="http://edition.cnn.com/2015/08/30/sport/athletics-world-championships-dibaba-bolt/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #5076b8; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Mare Dibaba</a>, who won the World Championship Marathon in Beijing last summer.</div><div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; float: none; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.7rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.70588; margin-bottom: 1.17647em; max-width: 680px; padding: 0px 15px; position: static; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;">The women's marathon is a relatively new Olympic event. It wasn't contested until 1984 when U.S. runner Joan Benoit ran to glory. She remains the only American woman to ever win a marathon.</div><div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; float: none; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.7rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.70588; margin-bottom: 1.17647em; max-width: 680px; padding: 0px 15px; position: static; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;">In Rio, the U.S. women's team features three experienced runners, <a href="http://www.runnersworld.com/olympics/after-nerve-racking-race-to-trials-title-amy-cragg-looks-toward-rio" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #5076b8; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Amy Cragg</a>, <a href="http://www.si.com/edge/2016/07/14/behind-body-desiree-linden-marathon-training-workouts-rio-olympics" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #5076b8; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Desi Linden</a> and <a href="http://www.runnersworld.com/olympic-trials/shalane-flanagan-on-dehydration-delirium-and-drama-at-the-olympic-trials" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #5076b8; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Shalane Flanagan</a>.</div><div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; float: none; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.7rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.70588; margin-bottom: 1.17647em; max-width: 680px; padding: 0px 15px; position: static; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;">Cragg won the U.S. Olympic Trials Marathon in February, with Linden second and Flanagan third. For Cragg, that race was redemption. She just missed the team in 2012 when she finished fourth in the trials.</div><div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; float: none; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.7rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.70588; margin-bottom: 1.17647em; max-width: 680px; padding: 0px 15px; position: static; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;">Linden made the U.S. team for the 2012 Olympic Marathon in London, but did not finish the race due to an injury. Flanagan finished 10th in London. Olympic marathons tend to be slower and more tactical races, so the American runners could also be contenders on Sunday.</div><div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; float: none; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.7rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.70588; margin-bottom: 1.17647em; max-width: 680px; padding: 0px 15px; position: static; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Men's Marathon</span></div><div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; float: none; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.7rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.70588; margin-bottom: 1.17647em; max-width: 680px; padding: 0px 15px; position: static; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;">In the men's race on Aug. 21, the favorite has to be Kenya's <a href="http://fittish.deadspin.com/why-eliud-kipchoge-is-the-worlds-best-distance-runner-1772794434" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #5076b8; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Eliud Kipchoge</a>. He's been just about unbeatable on the world stage in the last two years.</div><div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; float: none; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.7rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.70588; margin-bottom: 1.17647em; max-width: 680px; padding: 0px 15px; position: static; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;">He has the world's fastest marathon time this year, winning the London Marathon in 2 hours, 3 minutes and 5 seconds.</div><div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; float: none; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.7rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.70588; margin-bottom: 1.17647em; max-width: 680px; padding: 0px 15px; position: static; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;">And, not surprisingly, his toughest competition could well come from his teammate<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/02/sports/stanley-biwott-of-kenya-wins-new-york-city-marathon-mens-race.html" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #5076b8; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Stanley Biwott</a>, who won the New York Marathon last year and can in second to Kipchoge in London this year.</div><div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; float: none; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.7rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.70588; margin-bottom: 1.17647em; max-width: 680px; padding: 0px 15px; position: static; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;">The top Ethiopian runner is <a href="https://www.iaaf.org/athletes/ethiopia/tesfaye-abera-272715" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #5076b8; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Tesfaye Abera</a>, who ran a 2:04:24 marathon to win in Dubai in January.</div><div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; float: none; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.7rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.70588; margin-bottom: 1.17647em; max-width: 680px; padding: 0px 15px; position: static; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;">And two other contenders come from the same neighborhood: Eritrea's <a href="https://spikes.iaaf.org/post/ghirmay-ghebreslassie" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #5076b8; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Ghirmay Ghebreslassie</a>, the surprise winner of the 2015 World Championship Marathon in China, and Uganda's <a href="http://www.npr.org/2012/08/26/159990188/ugandan-gold-medalist-returns-to-fame-and-fortune" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #5076b8; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Stephen Kiprotich</a>, the reigning Olympic champion.</div><div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; float: none; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.7rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.70588; margin-bottom: 1.17647em; max-width: 680px; padding: 0px 15px; position: static; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;">The Americans, meanwhile, have an impressive team that could also be a factor.</div><div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; float: none; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.7rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.70588; margin-bottom: 1.17647em; max-width: 680px; padding: 0px 15px; position: static; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;">Keflezighi — the silver medal winner back in 2004, and the fourth place finisher in 2012 — is back again at age 41.</div><div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; float: none; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.7rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.70588; margin-bottom: 1.17647em; max-width: 680px; padding: 0px 15px; position: static; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;"><a href="http://www.runnersworld.com/olympics/can-galen-rupp-win-an-olympic-marathon-medal" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #5076b8; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Galen Rupp</a>, 30, won a silver medal in London at 10,000 meters and took the the U.S. Olympic Trials Marathon in February — which was his first ever marathon.</div><div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; float: none; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.7rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.70588; margin-bottom: 1.17647em; max-width: 680px; padding: 0px 15px; position: static; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;">Both the men's and the women's marathons start and finish at Rio's famous Sambodromo, the parade area built for Carnival. What happens in between will determine who stands on the podium this Sunday and next.</div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4280001565366629809.post-19087057554718059302016-08-13T22:53:00.001-07:002016-08-13T22:53:47.163-07:00At The Rio Olympics, The First-Ever Refugee Team Will Compete For Gold | Co.Exist | ideas + impact<header style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 15px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><section class="fc-header full-width -landscape -inline-slideshow " style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-height: 430px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="content-body-row" style="border: 0px; 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box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 27px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;"><h2 class="sub-heading" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; color: black; float: none; font-family: FCZizouSlabLight, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.013em; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Athletes who have been forced to flee their country—including a swimmer from Syria and a marathoner from Ethiopia—are being given a special place in this year's games.</div></h2></div></div></div><div class="header-row row" style="border: 0px; 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<li aria-describedby="slick-slide00" aria-hidden="false" class="slide slick-slide slick-current slick-active" data-caption="<figcation class="photo-gallery__modal__slide__caption"><div class="photo-gallery__modal__slide__caption__slide-number">01<span class="photo-gallery__modal__slide__caption__slide-number__denominator ">/10</span></div> <p>Meet the all-refugee Olympic team: South Sudanese refugee Anjelina Nadai Lohalith will compete in the 1,500-meter run.</p> </figcaption>" data-slick-index="0" role="option" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 472.469px; left: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; opacity: 1; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 720px; z-index: 999;" tabindex="0"><img alt="<p>Meet the all-refugee Olympic team: South Sudanese refugee Anjelina Nadai Lohalith will compete in the 1,500-meter run.</p>" class="full_height" src="http://a.fastcompany.net/multisite_files/fastcompany/imagecache/slideshow_large/slideshow/2016/08/3062455-slide-1-this-olympics-will-include-the-first-ever-refugee-team.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 474.031px; left: 360px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px auto; max-height: 500px; max-width: 749px; opacity: 1; padding: 0px; position: absolute; top: 236.234px; transform: translate(-50%, -50%); vertical-align: middle; width: auto;" /></li>
<li aria-describedby="slick-slide01" aria-hidden="true" class="slide slick-slide" data-caption="<figcation class="photo-gallery__modal__slide__caption"><div class="photo-gallery__modal__slide__caption__slide-number">02<span class="photo-gallery__modal__slide__caption__slide-number__denominator ">/10</span></div> <p>South Sudanese refugee James Nyang Chiengjiek will compete in the 400-meter run.</p> </figcaption>" data-slick-index="1" role="option" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 472.469px; left: -720px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; opacity: 0; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 720px; z-index: 998;" tabindex="-1"><img alt="<p>South Sudanese refugee James Nyang Chiengjiek will compete in the 400-meter run.</p>" class="full_height" src="http://d.fastcompany.net/multisite_files/fastcompany/imagecache/slideshow_large/slideshow/2016/08/3062455-slide-2-this-olympics-will-include-the-first-ever-refugee-team.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 474.031px; left: 360px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px auto; max-height: 500px; max-width: 749px; opacity: 1; padding: 0px; position: absolute; top: 236.234px; transform: translate(-50%, -50%); vertical-align: middle; width: auto;" /></li>
<li aria-describedby="slick-slide02" aria-hidden="true" class="slide slick-slide" data-caption="<figcation class="photo-gallery__modal__slide__caption"><div class="photo-gallery__modal__slide__caption__slide-number">03<span class="photo-gallery__modal__slide__caption__slide-number__denominator ">/10</span></div> <p>South Sudanese refugee Paulo Amotun Lokoro will compete in the 1,500-meter run.</p> </figcaption>" data-slick-index="2" role="option" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 472.469px; left: -1440px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; opacity: 0; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 720px; z-index: 998;" tabindex="-1"><img alt="<p>South Sudanese refugee Paulo Amotun Lokoro will compete in the 1,500-meter run.</p>" class="full_height" src="http://c.fastcompany.net/multisite_files/fastcompany/imagecache/slideshow_large/slideshow/2016/08/3062455-slide-3-this-olympics-will-include-the-first-ever-refugee-team.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 474.031px; left: 360px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px auto; max-height: 500px; max-width: 749px; opacity: 1; padding: 0px; position: absolute; top: 236.234px; transform: translate(-50%, -50%); vertical-align: middle; width: auto;" /></li>
<li aria-describedby="slick-slide03" aria-hidden="true" class="slide slick-slide" data-caption="<figcation class="photo-gallery__modal__slide__caption"><div class="photo-gallery__modal__slide__caption__slide-number">04<span class="photo-gallery__modal__slide__caption__slide-number__denominator ">/10</span></div> <p>Syrian refugee Rami Anis will compete in the 100-meter butterfly.</p> </figcaption>" data-slick-index="3" role="option" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 472.469px; left: -2160px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; opacity: 0; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 720px; z-index: 998;" tabindex="-1"><img alt="<p>Syrian refugee Rami Anis will compete in the 100-meter butterfly.</p>" class="slick-loading full_width" data-lazy="//b.fastcompany.net/multisite_files/fastcompany/imagecache/slideshow_large/slideshow/2016/08/3062455-slide-6-this-olympics-will-include-the-first-ever-refugee-team.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: auto; left: 360px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px auto; max-height: 480px; max-width: 750px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; top: 236.234px; transform: translate(-50%, -50%); vertical-align: middle; width: 720px;" /></li>
<li aria-describedby="slick-slide04" aria-hidden="true" class="slide slick-slide" data-caption="<figcation class="photo-gallery__modal__slide__caption"><div class="photo-gallery__modal__slide__caption__slide-number">05<span class="photo-gallery__modal__slide__caption__slide-number__denominator ">/10</span></div> <p>Syrian refugee Yusra Mardini will compete in the 100-meter butterfly and freestyle.</p> </figcaption>" data-slick-index="4" role="option" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 472.469px; left: -2880px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; opacity: 0; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 720px; z-index: 998;" tabindex="-1"><img alt="<p>Syrian refugee Yusra Mardini will compete in the 100-meter butterfly and freestyle.</p>" class="slick-loading full_width" data-lazy="//b.fastcompany.net/multisite_files/fastcompany/imagecache/slideshow_large/slideshow/2016/08/3062455-slide-11-this-olympics-will-include-the-first-ever-refugee-team.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: auto; left: 360px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px auto; max-height: 482px; max-width: 750px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; top: 236.234px; transform: translate(-50%, -50%); vertical-align: middle; width: 720px;" /></li>
<li aria-describedby="slick-slide05" aria-hidden="true" class="slide slick-slide" data-caption="<figcation class="photo-gallery__modal__slide__caption"><div class="photo-gallery__modal__slide__caption__slide-number">06<span class="photo-gallery__modal__slide__caption__slide-number__denominator ">/10</span></div> <p>South Sudanese refugee Rose Nathike Lokonyen will compete in the 800-meter run.</p> </figcaption>" data-slick-index="5" role="option" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 472.469px; left: -3600px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; opacity: 0; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 720px; z-index: 998;" tabindex="-1"><img alt="<p>South Sudanese refugee Rose Nathike Lokonyen will compete in the 800-meter run.</p>" class="slick-loading full_height" data-lazy="//c.fastcompany.net/multisite_files/fastcompany/imagecache/slideshow_large/slideshow/2016/08/3062455-slide-7-this-olympics-will-include-the-first-ever-refugee-team.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 474.031px; left: 360px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px auto; max-height: 500px; max-width: 747px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; top: 236.234px; transform: translate(-50%, -50%); vertical-align: middle; width: auto;" /></li>
<li aria-describedby="slick-slide06" aria-hidden="true" class="slide slick-slide" data-caption="<figcation class="photo-gallery__modal__slide__caption"><div class="photo-gallery__modal__slide__caption__slide-number">07<span class="photo-gallery__modal__slide__caption__slide-number__denominator ">/10</span></div> <p>South Sudanese refugee Yiech Pur Biel will compete in the 800-meter run.</p> </figcaption>" data-slick-index="6" role="option" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 472.469px; left: -4320px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; opacity: 0; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 720px; z-index: 998;" tabindex="-1"><img alt="<p>South Sudanese refugee Yiech Pur Biel will compete in the 800-meter run.</p>" class="slick-loading full_height" data-lazy="//d.fastcompany.net/multisite_files/fastcompany/imagecache/slideshow_large/slideshow/2016/08/3062455-slide-8-this-olympics-will-include-the-first-ever-refugee-team.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 474.031px; left: 360px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px auto; max-height: 500px; max-width: 749px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; top: 236.234px; transform: translate(-50%, -50%); vertical-align: middle; width: auto;" /></li>
<li aria-describedby="slick-slide07" aria-hidden="true" class="slide slick-slide" data-caption="<figcation class="photo-gallery__modal__slide__caption"><div class="photo-gallery__modal__slide__caption__slide-number">08<span class="photo-gallery__modal__slide__caption__slide-number__denominator ">/10</span></div> <p>Ethiopian refugee Yonas Kinde will compete in the marathon.</p> </figcaption>" data-slick-index="7" role="option" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 472.469px; left: -5040px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; opacity: 0; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 720px; z-index: 998;" tabindex="-1"><img alt="<p>Ethiopian refugee Yonas Kinde will compete in the marathon.</p>" class="slick-loading full_height" data-lazy="//c.fastcompany.net/multisite_files/fastcompany/imagecache/slideshow_large/slideshow/2016/08/3062455-slide-10-this-olympics-will-include-the-first-ever-refugee-team.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 474.031px; left: 360px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px auto; max-height: 500px; max-width: 749px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; top: 236.234px; transform: translate(-50%, -50%); vertical-align: middle; width: auto;" /></li>
<li aria-describedby="slick-slide08" aria-hidden="true" class="slide slick-slide" data-caption="<figcation class="photo-gallery__modal__slide__caption"><div class="photo-gallery__modal__slide__caption__slide-number">09<span class="photo-gallery__modal__slide__caption__slide-number__denominator ">/10</span></div> <p>Democratic Republic of the Congo refugee Yolande Mabika will compete in judo.</p> </figcaption>" data-slick-index="8" role="option" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 472.469px; left: -5760px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; opacity: 0; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 720px; z-index: 998;" tabindex="-1"><img alt="<p>Democratic Republic of the Congo refugee Yolande Mabika will compete in judo.</p>" class="slick-loading full_height" data-lazy="//a.fastcompany.net/multisite_files/fastcompany/imagecache/slideshow_large/slideshow/2016/08/3062455-slide-9-this-olympics-will-include-the-first-ever-refugee-team.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 474.031px; left: 360px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px auto; max-height: 500px; max-width: 750px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; top: 236.234px; transform: translate(-50%, -50%); vertical-align: middle; width: auto;" /></li>
<li aria-describedby="slick-slide09" aria-hidden="true" class="slide slick-slide" data-caption="<figcation class="photo-gallery__modal__slide__caption"><div class="photo-gallery__modal__slide__caption__slide-number">10<span class="photo-gallery__modal__slide__caption__slide-number__denominator ">/10</span></div> <p>Democratic Republic of the Congo refugee Popole Misenga will compete in judo.</p> </figcaption>" data-slick-index="9" role="option" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 472.469px; left: -6480px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; opacity: 0; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 720px; z-index: 998;" tabindex="-1"><img alt="<p>Democratic Republic of the Congo refugee Popole Misenga will compete in judo.</p>" class="slick-loading full_width" data-lazy="//d.fastcompany.net/multisite_files/fastcompany/imagecache/slideshow_large/slideshow/2016/08/3062455-slide-13-this-olympics-will-include-the-first-ever-refugee-team.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: auto; left: 360px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px auto; max-height: 490px; max-width: 750px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; top: 236.234px; transform: translate(-50%, -50%); vertical-align: middle; width: 720px;" /></li>
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<li aria-describedby="slick-slide10" aria-hidden="false" class="caption slick-slide slick-current slick-active" data-slick-index="0" role="option" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; display: block; float: left; font-family: FCZizouSlabLight, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 35.28px; left: 0px; letter-spacing: 0.025em; line-height: 17px; margin: 10px 0px 0px; min-height: 1px; opacity: 1; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: left; top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 720px; z-index: 999;" tabindex="0"><span class="slide-number" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-family: FCZizouSansBold, sans-serif; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: 1px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 4px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">01 <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #939598; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">/10</span> </span><div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Meet the all-refugee Olympic team: South Sudanese refugee Anjelina Nadai Lohalith will compete in the 1,500-meter run.</div></li>
<li aria-describedby="slick-slide11" aria-hidden="true" class="caption slick-slide" data-slick-index="1" role="option" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; display: block; float: left; font-family: FCZizouSlabLight, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 35.28px; left: -720px; letter-spacing: 0.025em; line-height: 17px; margin: 10px 0px 0px; min-height: 1px; opacity: 0; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: left; top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 720px; z-index: 998;" tabindex="-1"><span class="slide-number" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-family: FCZizouSansBold, sans-serif; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: 1px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 4px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">02 <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #939598; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">/10</span> </span><div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">South Sudanese refugee James Nyang Chiengjiek will compete in the 400-meter run.</div></li>
<li aria-describedby="slick-slide12" aria-hidden="true" class="caption slick-slide" data-slick-index="2" role="option" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; display: block; float: left; font-family: FCZizouSlabLight, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 35.28px; left: -1440px; letter-spacing: 0.025em; line-height: 17px; margin: 10px 0px 0px; min-height: 1px; opacity: 0; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: left; top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 720px; z-index: 998;" tabindex="-1"><span class="slide-number" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-family: FCZizouSansBold, sans-serif; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: 1px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 4px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">03 <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #939598; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">/10</span> </span><div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">South Sudanese refugee Paulo Amotun Lokoro will compete in the 1,500-meter run.</div></li>
<li aria-describedby="slick-slide13" aria-hidden="true" class="caption slick-slide" data-slick-index="3" role="option" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; display: block; float: left; font-family: FCZizouSlabLight, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 35.28px; left: -2160px; letter-spacing: 0.025em; line-height: 17px; margin: 10px 0px 0px; min-height: 1px; opacity: 0; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: left; top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 720px; z-index: 998;" tabindex="-1"><span class="slide-number" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-family: FCZizouSansBold, sans-serif; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: 1px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 4px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">04 <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #939598; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">/10</span> </span><div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Syrian refugee Rami Anis will compete in the 100-meter butterfly.</div></li>
<li aria-describedby="slick-slide14" aria-hidden="true" class="caption slick-slide" data-slick-index="4" role="option" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; display: block; float: left; font-family: FCZizouSlabLight, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 35.28px; left: -2880px; letter-spacing: 0.025em; line-height: 17px; margin: 10px 0px 0px; min-height: 1px; opacity: 0; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: left; top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 720px; z-index: 998;" tabindex="-1"><span class="slide-number" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-family: FCZizouSansBold, sans-serif; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: 1px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 4px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">05 <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #939598; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">/10</span> </span><div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Syrian refugee Yusra Mardini will compete in the 100-meter butterfly and freestyle.</div></li>
<li aria-describedby="slick-slide15" aria-hidden="true" class="caption slick-slide" data-slick-index="5" role="option" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; display: block; float: left; font-family: FCZizouSlabLight, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 35.28px; left: -3600px; letter-spacing: 0.025em; line-height: 17px; margin: 10px 0px 0px; min-height: 1px; opacity: 0; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: left; top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 720px; z-index: 998;" tabindex="-1"><span class="slide-number" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-family: FCZizouSansBold, sans-serif; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: 1px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 4px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">06 <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #939598; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">/10</span> </span><div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">South Sudanese refugee Rose Nathike Lokonyen will compete in the 800-meter run.</div></li>
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When their tiny, overcrowded boat from Turkey broke down before it reached the shore in Greece, the girls jumped into the water and helped guide it to safety, swimming three and a half hours to help save the others onboard. This month—exactly a year later—Mardini will swim in the Olympics, as a member of the first-ever Refugee Olympic Team.</div><figure class="inline-large inline inline column-container" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; cursor: zoom-in; float: none; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 70px 0px 50px -143.516px; padding: 4px 0px 0px; position: relative; transition: all 0.3s ease; vertical-align: baseline; width: 767.516px;"><div class="image-wrapper" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; float: none; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; max-width: 800px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" src="http://c.fastcompany.net/multisite_files/fastcompany/imagecache/inline-large/inline/2016/08/3062455-inline-11-this-olympics-will-include-the-first-ever-refugee-team.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: auto; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px -47.9688px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; position: relative; transition: all 0.3s ease; vertical-align: middle; width: 719.531px; z-index: 1;" /></div></figure><div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-family: MeretPro, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The new team includes another Syrian swimmer who escaped to Belgium, an Ethiopian marathon runner who now drives a taxi in Luxembourg, two judo experts from the Congo (now living in Brazil), and five long-distance runners from South Sudan, who have been training in a camp set up outside Nairobi by the record-breaking Kenyan runner Tegla Loroupe.</div><div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-family: MeretPro, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-family: MeretPro, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mardini had been training in Syria for years, but as the war escalated, it was hard to continue. In 2012, her family's home was bombed. Two of the other swimmers she trained with were killed soon afterward, and then her training center was damaged in another attack. But after Mardini finally reached Berlin in 2015, she started swimming again. And when the International Olympic committee decided to pull together a refugee team last year, her name made it on the list.</div><figure class="inline-large inline inline column-container" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; cursor: zoom-in; float: none; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 70px 0px 50px -143.516px; padding: 4px 0px 0px; position: relative; transition: all 0.3s ease; vertical-align: baseline; width: 767.516px;"><div class="image-wrapper" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; float: none; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; max-width: 800px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" src="http://a.fastcompany.net/multisite_files/fastcompany/imagecache/inline-large/inline/2016/08/3062455-inline-13-this-olympics-will-include-the-first-ever-refugee-team.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: auto; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px -47.9688px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; position: relative; transition: all 0.3s ease; vertical-align: middle; width: 719.531px; z-index: 1;" /></div></figure><div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-family: MeretPro, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Those who supported the creation of the new team are hoping it may change some misperceptions of refugees. "We hope that this initiative will challenge the way people see refugees, looking beyond stereotypes, and understand that refugees are people like the rest of us, with dreams and aspirations, and extraordinary skills to match," says Nora Sturm, a spokesperson for the UN Refugee Agency's office in Geneva. "The Refugee Olympic Team is an incredible example of the human spirit and shows the world that refugees are extraordinary people who have overcome huge odds."</div><div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-family: MeretPro, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Refugees have occasionally competed on their own in the past. Marathon runner Guor Marial, who fled from Sudan to the U.S. as a child, went to the 2012 Olympics as an independent. But this is the first time refugees will have an official team—driven in part by the fact that there are now more refugees in the world than there ever have been in history.</div><div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-family: MeretPro, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"This initiative is so important because, coming at a time when the number of forcibly displaced people has never been higher, it sends a strong message of support for refugees worldwide and generates much-needed awareness of their plight," says Sturm.</div><figure class="inline-large inline inline column-container" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; cursor: zoom-in; float: none; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 70px 0px 50px -143.516px; padding: 4px 0px 0px; position: relative; transition: all 0.3s ease; vertical-align: baseline; width: 767.516px;"><div class="image-wrapper" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; float: none; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; max-width: 800px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" src="http://c.fastcompany.net/multisite_files/fastcompany/imagecache/inline-large/inline/2016/08/3062455-inline-2-this-olympics-will-include-the-first-ever-refugee-team.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: auto; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px -47.9688px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; position: relative; transition: all 0.3s ease; vertical-align: middle; width: 719.531px; z-index: 1;" /></div></figure><div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-family: MeretPro, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The athletes will come to the Olympics with huge disadvantages in terms of training. The runners from South Sudan grew up in the Kakuma Refugee camp in Kenya—a place that had little access to resources in general, and often no access to sports. "Some of the others competed at very high level in their home countries but were forced to interrupt their training when they fled for their lives," she says. "They have been training at best at a high level for the last six months, whereas other athletes have been training for the Olympics at least for the past four years."</div><div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-family: MeretPro, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-family: MeretPro, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The IOC may also help the refugee team continue to train after the games, and they're also considering another refugee team for the next games—though, ideally, any athletes who are refugees now will have found permanent residences before then and will be able to join that country's team.</div><div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-family: MeretPro, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"It is difficult to say we are going to train an Olympic team in 2016 for the games in 2020 when the objective is to be no longer a refugee and become normal citizens," she says. "Perhaps with growing xenophobia and intolerance, the world needs this refugee team, to be reminded that refugees are fellow human beings who have lived under extraordinary circumstances."</div><div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-family: MeretPro, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: MeretProItalic, sans-serif; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Have something to say about this article? 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<li class="el__storyhighlights__item el__storyhighlights--normal" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-bottom-color: rgb(217, 217, 217); border-left-color: rgb(217, 217, 217); border-right-color: rgb(217, 217, 217); border-top: 1px solid rgb(217, 217, 217); box-sizing: border-box; font-family: CNN, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif; font-size: 0.933333rem; line-height: 1.42857; padding: 10px 0px;">Almaz Ayana bests 1993 mark by 14 seconds</li>
</ul></div><div class="ad ad--epic" data-ad-text="show" style="box-sizing: border-box; overflow: hidden; text-align: center;"><div class="ad-ad_ns_btf_01 ad-refresh-default" id="ad_ns_btf_01" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></div></div></div></div><div class="el__leafmedia el__leafmedia--sourced-paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.66667; margin-bottom: 15px;"><cite class="el-editorial-source" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: CNN, "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700;">(CNN)</cite>The Rio Olympics track and field competition has barely started but we already have a new world record in the women's 10,000 meters final.</div></div><div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.66667; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: 0px;">Ethiopia's Almaz Ayana stunned spectators at Rio's Olympic Stadium on Friday crossing the line in a time of 29 minutes, 17.45 seconds, smashing a record that has stood for nearly 23 years.</div><ul class="cn cn-list-hierarchical-xs cn--idx-4 cn-zoneAdContainer" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;"></ul><div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.66667; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: 0px;">Ayana, the reigning world 5,000m champion, obliterated the field taking 14 seconds off the previous best set by China's Junxia Wang in September 1993.</div><div class="el__embedded el__embedded--standard" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; width: 780px;"><div class="element-raw appearance-standard" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div id="rio2016TopMedals" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="rio2016-2XROF rio2016-253MP" data-reactroot="" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: auto; background-color: whitesmoke; box-sizing: border-box; float: left; font-family: CNN, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 10px 30px 30px 0px; min-width: 300px; overflow: hidden; position: relative; width: 300px;"><div class="rio2016-15fRG" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: flex;"><div class="rio2016-3TZF5" style="-webkit-box-flex: 1; background-color: #5697e8; border-right: 1px solid rgba(204, 228, 255, 0.247059); box-sizing: border-box; color: white; flex: 1 1 0%; padding: 8px 10px; position: relative; width: 150.5px;"><span class="rio2016-3WLBh rio2016-KJQB4 rio2016-XnAa_" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-size: 11px; letter-spacing: 0.2px; line-height: 1.1;">Time in Rio</span><span class="rio2016-2m1Kq rio2016-XnAa_" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-size: 20px; line-height: 1.1;">14:17:31</span></div><div class="rio2016-3TZF5" style="-webkit-box-flex: 1; background-color: #5697e8; box-sizing: border-box; color: white; flex: 1 1 0%; padding: 8px 10px; position: relative; width: 149.5px;"><span class="rio2016-3WLBh rio2016-KJQB4 rio2016-XnAa_" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-size: 11px; letter-spacing: 0.2px; line-height: 1.1;">Weather in Rio</span><span class="rio2016-2m1Kq rio2016-XnAa_" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-size: 20px; line-height: 1.1;">24°</span><span class="rio2016-3iWPL rio2016-1hw62" style="background-image: url("http://z.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.e/interactive/2016/rio.olympics/93f7eb429bf6525471eba571099c27ea.svg"); box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 40px; height: 30px; position: absolute; right: 10px; top: 25px; transform: translateY(-50%); width: 30px;"></span></div></div><div class="rio2016-1ACm5 rio2016-I5-Qi" style="backface-visibility: hidden; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; overflow-y: auto; padding: 10px 30px 0px 10px; position: relative; width: calc(100% + 20px);"><div class="rio2016-32oDd" data-tracking="compact" style="border-radius: 3px; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; overflow: hidden;"><div class="rio2016-26rN9 rio2016-1lAjU rio2016-11UGz rio2016-21JsO rio2016-1ya9J" style="background-color: #cce4ff; border-radius: 3px 3px 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #5697e8; cursor: pointer; height: 36px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px 30px 0px 10px; position: relative;"><span class="rio2016-1CFCA rio2016-PcKuI rio2016-2xXqr" style="animation: rio2016-PcKuI 0.4s cubic-bezier(0.165, 0.84, 0.44, 1) both; box-sizing: border-box; float: left; font-size: 13px; line-height: 36px;">Country medal ranking</span></div><div class="rio2016-3HICV rio2016-1lAjU" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #162e54;"><div class="rio2016-vVaot" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="rio2016-3C0VF rio2016-1sc1D" style="box-sizing: border-box; overflow: hidden; padding: 15px 10px 5px 50px; position: relative;"><span class="rio2016-2X6BK rio2016-1ClaY rio2016-KJQB4" style="animation: rio2016-1ClaY 0.6s cubic-bezier(0.165, 0.84, 0.44, 1) 0.2s both; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; float: left; font-size: 11px; letter-spacing: 0.2px; line-height: 1; width: 66px;">Country</span><span class="rio2016-2X6BK rio2016-1ClaY rio2016-KJQB4" style="animation: rio2016-1ClaY 0.6s cubic-bezier(0.165, 0.84, 0.44, 1) 0.2s both; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; float: left; font-size: 11px; letter-spacing: 0.2px; line-height: 1; text-align: center; width: 38.5px;">Gold</span><span class="rio2016-2X6BK rio2016-1ClaY rio2016-KJQB4" style="animation: rio2016-1ClaY 0.6s cubic-bezier(0.165, 0.84, 0.44, 1) 0.2s both; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; float: left; font-size: 11px; letter-spacing: 0.2px; line-height: 1; text-align: center; width: 38.5px;">Silver</span><span class="rio2016-2X6BK rio2016-1ClaY rio2016-KJQB4" style="animation: rio2016-1ClaY 0.6s cubic-bezier(0.165, 0.84, 0.44, 1) 0.2s both; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; float: left; font-size: 11px; letter-spacing: 0.2px; line-height: 1; text-align: center; width: 38.5px;">Bronze</span><span class="rio2016-2X6BK rio2016-1ClaY rio2016-KJQB4" style="animation: rio2016-1ClaY 0.6s cubic-bezier(0.165, 0.84, 0.44, 1) 0.2s both; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; float: right; font-size: 11px; letter-spacing: 0.2px; line-height: 1; text-align: right; width: 38.5px;">Total</span></div><div class="rio2016-3P9MG rio2016-1ClaY" style="animation: rio2016-3JfhM 0.6s cubic-bezier(0.165, 0.84, 0.44, 1) both; box-sizing: border-box; counter-reset: row-index 0; position: relative;"><div class="rio2016-2nZBv rio2016-PcKuI" style="animation: rio2016-PcKuI 0.4s cubic-bezier(0.165, 0.84, 0.44, 1) 0.1s both; border-top: 2px solid rgb(245, 245, 245); box-sizing: border-box; height: 36px; line-height: 36px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px 10px 0px 50px; position: relative;"><span class="rio2016-1mARY rio2016-VyBda" style="background: url("http://z.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.e/interactive/2016/rio.olympics/131c268ac38db96e22aa2b8fd69bdc4b.png") 0% 0% / contain no-repeat rgb(194, 194, 194); border-radius: 50%; box-shadow: rgb(194, 194, 194) 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; height: 15px; vertical-align: middle; width: 15px;"></span><span class="rio2016-1McUN rio2016-2xXqr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.3; margin-left: 5px;">USA</span><div class="rio2016-2s5-F rio2016-2Cex8" style="animation: rio2016-2Cex8 0.4s cubic-bezier(0.165, 0.84, 0.44, 1) 0.1s both; box-sizing: border-box; float: right; overflow: hidden; position: relative; width: 154px;"><span class="rio2016-ZimHS rio2016-fpM30" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #f6bf46; float: left; font-size: 13px; text-align: center; width: 38.5px;">21</span><span class="rio2016-ZimHS rio2016-3kjx8" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #cbd3de; float: left; font-size: 13px; text-align: center; width: 38.5px;">14</span><span class="rio2016-ZimHS rio2016-9dEBx" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #e0925c; float: left; font-size: 13px; text-align: center; width: 38.5px;">17</span><span class="rio2016-ZimHS rio2016-1ivaC" style="box-sizing: border-box; float: right; font-size: 13px; text-align: right; width: 38.5px;">52</span></div></div><div class="rio2016-2nZBv rio2016-PcKuI" style="animation: rio2016-PcKuI 0.4s cubic-bezier(0.165, 0.84, 0.44, 1) 0.1s both; border-top: 1px solid rgb(245, 245, 245); box-sizing: border-box; height: 36px; line-height: 36px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px 10px 0px 50px; position: relative;"><span class="rio2016-1mARY rio2016-OOUx-" style="background: url("http://z.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.e/interactive/2016/rio.olympics/3eedf4e06c3a95a84aaa8a4293f24cde.png") 0% 0% / contain no-repeat rgb(194, 194, 194); border-radius: 50%; box-shadow: rgb(194, 194, 194) 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; height: 15px; vertical-align: middle; width: 15px;"></span><span class="rio2016-1McUN rio2016-2xXqr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.3; margin-left: 5px;">CHN</span><div class="rio2016-2s5-F rio2016-2Cex8" style="animation: rio2016-2Cex8 0.4s cubic-bezier(0.165, 0.84, 0.44, 1) 0.1s both; box-sizing: border-box; float: right; overflow: hidden; position: relative; width: 154px;"><span class="rio2016-ZimHS rio2016-fpM30" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #f6bf46; float: left; font-size: 13px; text-align: center; width: 38.5px;">13</span><span class="rio2016-ZimHS rio2016-3kjx8" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #cbd3de; float: left; font-size: 13px; text-align: center; width: 38.5px;">10</span><span class="rio2016-ZimHS rio2016-9dEBx" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #e0925c; float: left; font-size: 13px; text-align: center; width: 38.5px;">16</span><span class="rio2016-ZimHS rio2016-1ivaC" style="box-sizing: border-box; float: right; font-size: 13px; text-align: right; width: 38.5px;">39</span></div></div><div class="rio2016-2nZBv rio2016-PcKuI" style="animation: rio2016-PcKuI 0.4s cubic-bezier(0.165, 0.84, 0.44, 1) 0.1s both; border-top: 1px solid rgb(245, 245, 245); box-sizing: border-box; height: 36px; line-height: 36px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px 10px 0px 50px; position: relative;"><span class="rio2016-1mARY rio2016-un6nR" style="background: url("http://z.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.e/interactive/2016/rio.olympics/5fc6928db836c54268a672b48effc504.png") 0% 0% / contain no-repeat rgb(194, 194, 194); 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font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.4em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;">Olympic swimmer Robel Kiros Habte gained internet fame for his portly build and agonizingly slow qualifying time.</div><div class="article__text text " style="font-family: "Segoe UI", "Gill Sans Light", Helvetica; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.4em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0.6em; padding: 0px;">Habte finished dead last from 59 swimmers in the men’s 100m freestyle qualifying, and a huge 17 seconds behind the winner in his three-man swim sprint, posting a time of 64.95 seconds.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0.6em; padding: 0px;">The 24-year-old college student’s performance has split opinion online, with some affectionately dubbing him <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“The Whale”</em>due to his generously rounded stomach in a pool of chiseled abs, and others insisting he should be in better shape as an Olympic athlete so as not to <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“embarrass”</em> his nation.</div><div class="rtcode" style="margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; 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Take a look at the clip above and we GUARANTEE your new favourite person at the <a data-action="rio-2016-olympics" data-content-type="section-topic" data-track="false" data-type="inline" data-word-count="2" href="http://www.mirror.co.uk/all-about/rio-2016-olympics" style="border: 0px; color: #e90e0e; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline-style: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Rio Games</a> will be Ethiopian swimmer Robel Kiros Habte.</div><div style="border: 0px; color: #2c2c2c; font-family: "PT Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The footage shows Habte giving his all during the heats of the 100m freestyle. This picture of him on the blocks should give you some idea how he got on:</div><br /><br />
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<div style="border: 0px; color: #2c2c2c; font-family: "PT Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; color: #2c2c2c; font-family: "PT Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Sure enough, Habte didn't win the race. In fact, Habte ended up so far behind his fellow competitors, it almost seemed like he was competing in an entirely different sport.</div><div style="border: 0px; color: #2c2c2c; font-family: "PT Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Our man clocked a time of 64.95 seconds in the three-man heat - a massive SEVENTEEN seconds behind Australian pacesetter Kyle Chalmers (47.90).</div><div style="border: 0px; color: #2c2c2c; font-family: "PT Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><br /><br />
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<div style="border: 0px; color: #2c2c2c; font-family: "PT Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The 24 year-old - who weights in at a pretty hefty 12.5 stone - finished 59th out of the 59 swimmers in the heats.</div><div style="border: 0px; color: #2c2c2c; font-family: "PT Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">And the effort he put in, combined with his uniquely wonderful 'dad bod', saw him get an amazing reception:</div><twitterwidget class="twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered" data-tweet-id="763284761687298048" id="twitter-widget-2" style="display: block; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; max-width: 100%; min-width: 220px; position: static; transform: rotate(0deg); visibility: visible; width: 500px;"></twitterwidget><br /><br />
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</span> Follow</a></span></div><div class="TweetAuthor" data-scribe="component:author" style="line-height: 0; margin-top: 2px; max-width: 100%; overflow: hidden !important; text-overflow: ellipsis !important; word-wrap: normal !important;"><a aria-label="Alice Stoner (screen name: Alls_Stoner)" class="TweetAuthor-link Identity u-linkBlend" data-scribe="element:user_link" href="https://twitter.com/Alls_Stoner" style="background-color: transparent; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; outline: 0px; text-decoration: inherit;"><span class="TweetAuthor-avatar Identity-avatar" style="background-color: transparent; border-radius: 4px; display: inline-block; height: 36px; left: 0px; overflow: hidden; position: absolute; top: 0px; width: 36px;"><img alt="" class="Avatar" data-scribe="element:avatar" data-src-1x="https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/661950917449773056/f7A7IP1Q_normal.jpg" data-src-2x="https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/661950917449773056/f7A7IP1Q_bigger.jpg" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/661950917449773056/f7A7IP1Q_normal.jpg" style="border: 0px; max-height: 100%; max-width: 100%;" /></span><span class="TweetAuthor-name Identity-name customisable-highlight" data-scribe="element:name" style="font-weight: 700;" title="Alice Stoner">Alice Stoner</span> <span class="TweetAuthor-screenName Identity-screenName" data-scribe="element:screen_name" dir="ltr" style="color: #697882; font-size: 14px;" title="@Alls_Stoner">@Alls_Stoner</span></a></div></div><div class="Tweet-body e-entry-content" data-scribe="component:tweet" style="margin-top: 14px;"><div class="Tweet-text e-entry-title" dir="ltr" lang="en" style="border: none; cursor: text; direction: ltr; list-style: none; padding: 0px;">Robes Habte in the Olympics is an analogy of my life <a class="PrettyLink hashtag customisable" data-query-source="hashtag_click" data-scribe="element:hashtag" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Rio2016?src=hash" rel="tag" style="background-color: transparent; color: #2b7bb9; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span class="PrettyLink-prefix">#</span><span class="PrettyLink-value">Rio2016</span></a><a class="PrettyLink hashtag customisable" data-query-source="hashtag_click" data-scribe="element:hashtag" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/bbcrio2016?src=hash" rel="tag" style="background-color: transparent; color: #2b7bb9; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span class="PrettyLink-prefix">#</span><span class="PrettyLink-value">bbcrio2016</span></a> <img alt="��" aria-label="Emoji: Face with tears of joy" class="Emoji Emoji--forText" draggable="false" src="https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/72x72/1f602.png" style="border: 0px; height: 1.25em; padding: 0px 0.05em 0px 0.1em; vertical-align: -0.2em; width: 1.25em;" title="Face with tears of joy" /><img alt="��" aria-label="Emoji: Sports medal" class="Emoji Emoji--forText" draggable="false" src="https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/72x72/1f3c5.png" style="border: 0px; height: 1.25em; padding: 0px 0.05em 0px 0.1em; vertical-align: -0.2em; width: 1.25em;" title="Sports medal" /></div><div class="Tweet-metadata dateline" style="color: #697882; font-size: 14px; margin-top: 3.2px;"><a class="u-linkBlend u-url customisable-highlight long-permalink" data-datetime="2016-08-10T08:04:02+0000" data-scribe="element:full_timestamp" href="https://twitter.com/Alls_Stoner/status/763284761687298048" style="background-color: transparent; font-weight: inherit; outline: 0px; text-decoration: inherit;">10:04 AM - 10 Aug 2016</a></div><ul aria-label="Tweet actions" class="Tweet-actions" data-scribe="component:actions" role="menu" style="border: none; list-style: none; margin: 8.4px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;"><li class="Tweet-action" style="display: inline-block;"><a class="TweetAction TweetAction--reply web-intent" data-scribe="element:reply" href="https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?in_reply_to=763284761687298048" style="background-color: transparent; color: #697882; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><div aria-label="Reply" class="Icon Icon--reply TweetAction-icon" role="img" style="background-image: url("data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20viewBox%3D%220%200%2062%2072%22%3E%3Cpath%20class%3D%22icon%22%20fill%3D%22%23697882%22%20d%3D%22M41%2031h-9V19c0-1.14-.647-2.183-1.668-2.688-1.022-.507-2.243-.39-3.15.302l-21%2016C5.438%2033.18%205%2034.064%205%2035s.437%201.82%201.182%202.387l21%2016c.533.405%201.174.613%201.82.613.453%200%20.908-.103%201.33-.312C31.354%2053.183%2032%2052.14%2032%2051V39h9c5.514%200%2010%204.486%2010%2010%200%202.21%201.79%204%204%204s4-1.79%204-4c0-9.925-8.075-18-18-18z%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E"); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: contain; display: inline-block; height: 1.25em; transform: scaleX(1); vertical-align: text-bottom; width: 1.07639em;" title="Reply"></div></a></li>
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cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="56" /></a></div><section class="article-text" style="border: 0px; clear: both; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 5px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">ADDIS ABABA - Ethiopia's governing body for athletics has sought to distance itself from Jama Aden, the coach of Ethiopian 1,500 metres world record holder Genzebe Dibaba, after his arrest in <a href="https://www.enca.com/africa/sport/spain-doping-case-decision-threatens-to-expose-more-sportsmen-and-women" style="border: 0px; color: #2a97d0; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Spain on doping charges</a>.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Somali trainer was detained by police this week following months of<a href="https://www.enca.com/sport/tennis/federer-supports-sharapova-doping-ban" style="border: 0px; color: #2a97d0; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">investigations </a>prompted by a tip-off from the Spanish Agency of Health and Sport (AEPSAD).</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The 25 year-old Genzebe - sister of triple Olympic distance champion Tirunesh Dibaba and Olympic silver medallist Ejegayehu Dibaba - is hot favourite to win the 1,500m at this year's Rio Olympics.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"While the individual trained an Ethiopian athlete, he neither has the <a href="https://www.enca.com/sport/russia-probes-ex-anti-doping-lab-chief" style="border: 0px; color: #2a97d0; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">endorsement </a>nor any working arrangement with the (Ethiopian Athletics) Federation," the body said in a statement on Friday.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Ethiopia has come under scrutiny after the IAAF said it was one of five countries that were in<a href="https://www.enca.com/sport/tennis/sharapova-moves-to-appeal-doping-ban" style="border: 0px; color: #2a97d0; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> "critical care"</a> over their drug-testing systems.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; 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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">BARCELONA (HAN) June 20.2016. Public Diplomacy & Regional Security News</strong>. The coach of World 1500m champion Genzebe Dibaba and other long-distance runners was arrested near Barcelona after Spanish police raided his hotel room and found traces of EPO and other banned substances on Monday.<br />
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Jama Aden, a Somalian, was detained along with one of his unnamed trainers from Morocco, as the IAAF tested 30 athletes who were also guests at the Sabadell hotel, about 25 kilometers from Barcelona, where the coach has established annual training camps since 2013.</div>
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Police confirmed Aden and his trainer were under arrest on charges of administering and distributing doping substances and endangering public health. After questioning by law enforcement, both detainees should face prosecution within 72 hours.</div>
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Local authorities did not expect further arrests to follow.</div>
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The athletes, including Dibaba, at the raided hotel were mainly from Somalia, Sudan, Ethiopia or Djibouti.</div>
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Dibaba is a heavy favorite to win the Olympic women’s 1500m in Rio de Janeiro.</div>
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A simultaneous police raid in Madrid also yielded 16 arrests related to the trafficking of drugs and anabolic steroids.</div>
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Despite coinciding in time, law enforcement officers stressed there was no connection between the Sabadell operation and the bust in the Spanish capital, mainly linked to the bodybuilding underground market for steroid users.</div>
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<div style="color: #222222; font-size: 1.6em; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px;"><span id="articleText" style="transform: translate3d(0px, 0px, 0px);"><span class="focusParagraph" style="transform: translate3d(0px, 0px, 0px);">Former world heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali, whose record-setting boxing career, flair for showmanship and political stands made him one of the best-known figures of the 20th century, died on Friday aged 74.</span></span></div><span id="articleText" style="transform: translate3d(0px, 0px, 0px);"><span class="focusParagraph" style="transform: translate3d(0px, 0px, 0px);"><br />
</span><span id="midArticle_1" style="transform: translate3d(0px, 0px, 0px);"></span><div style="color: #222222; font-size: 1.6em; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px;">Ali, who had long suffered from Parkinson's syndrome which impaired his speech and made the once-graceful athlete almost a prisoner in his own body, died a day after he was admitted to a Phoenix-area hospital with a respiratory ailment.</div><span id="midArticle_2" style="transform: translate3d(0px, 0px, 0px);"></span><div style="color: #222222; font-size: 1.6em; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px;">Even so, Ali's youthful proclamation of himself as "the greatest" rang true until the end for the millions of people worldwide who admired him for his courage both inside and outside the ring.</div><span id="midArticle_3" style="transform: translate3d(0px, 0px, 0px);"></span><div style="color: #222222; font-size: 1.6em; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px;">Along with a fearsome reputation as a fighter, he spoke out against racism, war and religious intolerance, while projecting an unshakeable confidence and humor that became a model for African-Americans at the height of the civil rights era.</div><span id="midArticle_4" style="transform: translate3d(0px, 0px, 0px);"></span><div style="color: #222222; font-size: 1.6em; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px;">"Muhammad Ali was one of the greatest human beings I have ever met," said George Foreman, who lost to Ali in Zaire in a classic 1974 bout known as the "Rumble in Jungle."</div><span id="midArticle_5" style="transform: translate3d(0px, 0px, 0px);"></span><div style="color: #222222; font-size: 1.6em; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px;">"No doubt he was one of the best people to have lived in this day and age. To put him as a boxer is an injustice."</div><span id="midArticle_6" style="transform: translate3d(0px, 0px, 0px);"></span><div style="color: #222222; font-size: 1.6em; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px;">Ali enjoyed a popularity that transcended the world of sports, even though he rarely appeared in public in his later years.</div><span id="midArticle_7" style="transform: translate3d(0px, 0px, 0px);"></span><div style="color: #222222; font-size: 1.6em; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px;">"We lost an icon," said Delson Dez, 28, a construction worker, who was holding up a poster of the fighter in Scottsdale, Arizona soon after Ali's death was confirmed in a statement issued by his family late Friday evening.</div><span id="midArticle_8" style="transform: translate3d(0px, 0px, 0px);"></span><span class="first-article-divide" style="transform: translate3d(0px, 0px, 0px);"></span><div class="related-news module" id="relatedNews" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; float: left; margin: 20px 0px 35px; padding: 12px 0px; width: 647px;"><h3 class="related-coverage-header" style="color: #333333; font-size: 1.4em; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; text-transform: uppercase; transform: translate3d(0px, 0px, 0px);">RELATED COVERAGE</h3><ul style="list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 4px 0px 0px;"><li style="list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/us-people-ali-reaction-factbox-idUSKCN0YQ09K?mod=related&channelName=domesticNews" style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; cursor: pointer; font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 30px; text-decoration: none; width: auto;"><span class="related-bullet" style="color: #666666; font-size: 0.7em; font-weight: bold; transform: translate3d(0px , 0px , 0px); vertical-align: middle;">›</span> Muhammad Ali, 'the greatest,' remembered as a true champion</a></li>
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</ul></div><div style="color: #222222; font-size: 1.6em; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px;">"He talked trash but he backed it up," Dez said.</div><span id="midArticle_9" style="transform: translate3d(0px, 0px, 0px);"></span><div style="color: #222222; font-size: 1.6em; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px;">Few could argue with his athletic prowess at his peak in the 1960s. With his dancing feet and quick fists, he could - as he put it - float like a butterfly and sting like a bee. He was the first person to win the heavyweight championship three times.</div><span id="midArticle_10" style="transform: translate3d(0px, 0px, 0px);"></span><div style="color: #222222; font-size: 1.6em; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px;">But Ali became much more than a colorful and interesting athlete. He spoke boldly against racism in the '60s, as well as the Vietnam War.</div><span id="midArticle_11" style="transform: translate3d(0px, 0px, 0px);"></span><div style="color: #222222; font-size: 1.6em; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px;">During and after his championship reign, Ali met scores of world leaders and for a time he was considered the most recognizable person on earth, known even in remote villages far from the United States.</div><span id="midArticle_12" style="transform: translate3d(0px, 0px, 0px);"></span><span class="second-article-divide" style="transform: translate3d(0px, 0px, 0px);"></span><div style="color: #222222; font-size: 1.6em; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px;">Ali's diagnosis of Parkinson's came about three years after he retired from boxing in 1981.</div><span id="midArticle_13" style="transform: translate3d(0px, 0px, 0px);"></span><div style="color: #222222; font-size: 1.6em; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px;">His influence extended far beyond boxing. He became the unofficial spokesman for millions of blacks and oppressed people around the world because of his refusal to compromise his opinions and stand up to white authorities.</div><span id="midArticle_14" style="transform: translate3d(0px, 0px, 0px);"></span><div style="color: #222222; font-size: 1.6em; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px;">"We lost a giant today. Boxing benefited from Muhammad Ali's talents but not nearly as much as mankind benefited from his humanity," said Manny Pacquiao, a boxer and politician in the Philippines, where Ali fought arch rival Joe Frazier for a third time in a brutal 1975 match dubbed the "Thrilla in Manila."</div><span id="midArticle_15" style="transform: translate3d(0px, 0px, 0px);"></span><div style="color: #222222; font-size: 1.6em; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px;">In a realm where athletes often battle inarticulateness as well as their opponents, Ali was known as the Louisville Lip and loved to talk, especially about himself.</div><span id="midArticle_0" style="transform: translate3d(0px, 0px, 0px);"></span><span class="third-article-divide" style="transform: translate3d(0px, 0px, 0px);"></span><div class="related-news module" id="relatedNews" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; float: left; margin: 20px 0px 35px; padding: 12px 0px; width: 647px;"><h3 class="related-coverage-header" style="color: #333333; font-size: 1.4em; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; text-transform: uppercase; transform: translate3d(0px, 0px, 0px);">RELATED COVERAGE</h3><ul style="list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 4px 0px 0px;"><li style="list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/us-people-ali-quotes-factbox-idUSKCN0YQ082?mod=related&channelName=domesticNews" style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; cursor: pointer; font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 30px; text-decoration: none; width: auto;"><span class="related-bullet" style="color: #666666; font-size: 0.7em; font-weight: bold; transform: translate3d(0px , 0px , 0px); vertical-align: middle;">›</span> Muhammad Ali, in his own words</a></li>
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</ul></div><div style="color: #222222; font-size: 1.6em; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px;">"Humble people, I've found, don't get very far," he once told a reporter.</div><span id="midArticle_1" style="transform: translate3d(0px, 0px, 0px);"></span><div style="color: #222222; font-size: 1.6em; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px;">His taunts could be brutal. "Joe Frazier is so ugly that when he cries, the tears turn around and go down the back of his head," he once said. He also dubbed Frazier a 'gorilla' but later apologized and said it was all to promote the fight.</div><span id="midArticle_2" style="transform: translate3d(0px, 0px, 0px);"></span><div style="color: #222222; font-size: 1.6em; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px;">Once asked about his preferred legacy, Ali said: "I would like to be remembered as a man who won the heavyweight title three times, who was humorous and who treated everyone right. As a man who never looked down on those who looked up to him ... who stood up for his beliefs ... who tried to unite all humankind through faith and love.</div><span id="midArticle_3" style="transform: translate3d(0px, 0px, 0px);"></span><div style="color: #222222; font-size: 1.6em; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px;">"And if all that's too much, then I guess I'd settle for being remembered only as a great boxer who became a leader and a champion of his people. And I wouldn't even mind if folks forgot how pretty I was."</div><span id="midArticle_4" style="transform: translate3d(0px, 0px, 0px);"></span><div style="color: #222222; font-size: 1.6em; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px;">Ali was born in Louisville, Kentucky, on Jan. 17, 1942, as Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr., a name shared with a 19th century slavery abolitionist. He changed his name after his conversion to Islam.</div><span id="midArticle_5" style="transform: translate3d(0px, 0px, 0px);"></span><div style="color: #222222; font-size: 1.6em; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px;">Ali is survived by his wife, the former Lonnie Williams, who knew him when she was a child in Louisville, along with his nine children.</div><span id="midArticle_6" style="transform: translate3d(0px, 0px, 0px);"></span><div style="color: #222222; font-size: 1.6em; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px;"></div><span id="midArticle_7" style="transform: translate3d(0px, 0px, 0px);"></span><div style="color: #222222; font-size: 1.6em; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px;">(Additional reporting by Brendan O'Brien in Milwaukee and Frank McGurty in New York; Writing by Bill Trott and Frank McGurty; Editing by Paul Tait, Greg Mahlich)</div><span id="midArticle_8" style="transform: translate3d(0px, 0px, 0px);"></span></span><br /><br />
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<div class="story-body-supplemental" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; font-family: nyt-cheltenham, georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 16px; justify-content: space-between;"><div class="story-body" style="flex-grow: 0; position: relative; width: 705px;"><div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="240" data-total-count="240" style="font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 1.0625rem; line-height: 1.625rem; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 75px; max-width: none; width: 570px;">ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — Five of the six Ethiopian athletes suspended and under investigation for doping by the country's authorities tested positive for the newly banned substance meldonium, the national track team doctor said on Friday.</div><div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="270" data-total-count="510" style="font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 1.0625rem; line-height: 1.625rem; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 75px; max-width: none; width: 570px;">Two of the six would have likely made Ethiopia's team for the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro "if they were clean," Ayalew Tilahun told The Associated Press in an interview coinciding with a visit to the East African country by a delegation from the World Anti-Doping Agency.</div><div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="89" data-total-count="599" style="font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 1.0625rem; line-height: 1.625rem; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 75px; max-width: none; width: 570px;">Ayalew didn't give any names or say what substance the sixth athlete tested positive for.</div><div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="362" data-total-count="961" style="font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 1.0625rem; line-height: 1.625rem; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 75px; max-width: none; width: 570px;">Ayalew did say delays in making the cases public are related to the World Anti-Doping Agency's decision to obtain more scientific research on meldonium. Meldonium was banned from Jan. 1, but more research is needed to establish how long traces remain in the body. Athletes who have failed tests could have taken meldonium before it was put on WADA's banned list.</div><div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="370" data-total-count="1331" style="font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 1.0625rem; line-height: 1.625rem; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 75px; max-width: none; width: 570px;">"So, we are just keeping these athletes under suspension and we won't take measures until we get a green light to do so from WADA and (the) IAAF," Ayalew said. "Both of these organizations have written to us four times, the last one a little bit more than a month ago, to wait for further notice as they are considering to revisit its (meldonium's) use and implications.</div><div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="180" data-total-count="1511" style="font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 1.0625rem; line-height: 1.625rem; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 75px; max-width: none; width: 570px;">"From the athletes that are under suspension with us, two of them could have made it to the Rio Olympics if they were clean. Their condition was good. I cannot say more than this."</div><div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="226" data-total-count="1737" id="story-continues-1" style="font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 1.0625rem; line-height: 1.625rem; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 75px; max-width: none; width: 570px;">Meldonium increases blood flow and is used to treat heart conditions. It was developed in Latvia and many of the more than 170 failed tests for meldonium so far have involved Russians. The most high profile is Maria Sharapova.</div><div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="51" data-total-count="1788" style="font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 1.0625rem; line-height: 1.625rem; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 75px; max-width: none; width: 570px;">Ethiopia is also under the spotlight for meldonium.</div><div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="394" data-total-count="2182" style="font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 1.0625rem; line-height: 1.625rem; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 75px; max-width: none; width: 570px;">Abeba Aregawi, the Ethiopia-born former 1,500-meter world champion who competes for Sweden failed an out-of-competition test for meldonium this year. She reportedly failed the test in Ethiopia. Also, 2015 Tokyo Marathon winner Endeshaw Negesse has been linked to a positive test for meldonium, although Ethiopian authorities have not said if Negesse is one of their athletes being investigated.</div><div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="157" data-total-count="2339" style="font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 1.0625rem; line-height: 1.625rem; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 75px; max-width: none; width: 570px;">Ayalew attended meetings on Friday in Addis Ababa with WADA deputy director Rob Koehler. WADA's Africa director, Rodney Swigelaar, also traveled to Ethiopia.</div><div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="272" data-total-count="2611" style="font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 1.0625rem; line-height: 1.625rem; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 75px; max-width: none; width: 570px;">WADA has urged Ethiopia to strengthen its anti-doping program and conduct more tests following serious problems in East African neighbor and fellow distance running power Kenya, which was declared non-compliant by WADA last month and had its drug-testing agency suspended.</div><div class="story-body-text story-content" data-node-uid="1" data-para-count="208" data-total-count="2819" style="font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 1.0625rem; line-height: 1.625rem; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 75px; max-width: none; width: 570px;">Ethiopian authorities said in April they would attempt to test up to 200 athletes by November. So far, 37 of those doping tests have been carried out, Ayalew said. The results weren't yet available, he added.</div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4280001565366629809.post-34369100963352181872016-04-19T07:25:00.001-07:002016-04-19T08:47:10.243-07:002016 Boston Marathon: Defending Champions Return<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Lemi Berhanu Hayle won the men's Boston Marathon, and Atsede Baysa won the women's race.</div>
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<cite class="el-editorial-source" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: CNN, 'Helvetica Neue', Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700;">(CNN)</cite>Ethiopia had a banner day at the Boston Marathon on Monday, as Lemi Berhanu Hayle and Atsede Baysa won the men's and women's titles.</div>
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It's the first time the country has swept the men's and women's titles in this historic event, the world's oldest annual marathon.</div>
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Hayle won the elite men's division in an unofficial time of 2:12:45, completing a podium sweep by three men's runners from Ethiopia. He pulled away late from the 2015 champion, Lelisa Desisa, with a little more than a mile to go. Desisa finished second in a time of 2:13:32. Yemane Adhane Tsegay finished third in 2:14:02.</div>
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"Very difficult," Hayle said through a translator to CNN affiliate <a href="http://boston.cbslocal.com/2016/04/18/2016-boston-marathon-mens-winner-lemi-berhanu-hayle-ethiopia-lelisa-desisa/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #006598; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s;" target="_blank">WBZ</a> after he won the race.</div>
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With a late charge on the women's side, Baysa came from behind to win her division in 2:29:19. Baysa, who was 37 seconds behind the leaders at mile 21, seemingly came out of nowhere to take the lead. At mile 24, she was by herself with the race in hand.</div>
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Through a translator, Baysa told <a href="http://boston.cbslocal.com/2016/04/18/2016-boston-marathon-womens-winner-atsede-baysa-ethiopia-tirfi-tsegaye-joyce-chepkirui/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #006598; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s;" target="_blank">WBZ</a> that she is "very happy" and "very lucky."</div>
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"To win Boston is not easy," she said.</div>
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Tirfi Tsegaye of Ethiopia was second in 2:30:03, while Kenyan Joyce Chepkirui was third (2:30:50).</div>
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American Tatyana McFadden won the women's wheelchair division for the fourth consecutive year, while Marcel Hug of Switzerland won the men's wheelchair race, defending his 2015 title.</div>
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While she crossed the finish line with no other competitors in sight, McFadden didn't lead the entire way. She admitted after the race in an on-air interview on NBC Sports Network that she got nervous around the fifth or sixth mile before taking the lead in mile nine.</div>
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"I just wasn't catching the rest of the pack as fast as I wanted to," McFadden said. "But you know what? I just needed to remember why I was running, to stay relaxed. The race is 26.2 (miles), and it's a long way to go."</div>
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The top American male finisher was Zachary Hine, who finished 10th in 2:21:37. The first American to cross for the women was Neely Spence Gracey, who finished ninth in a time of 2:35.</div>
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The 120th running of the historic race took place under heavy security, three years after double bombings near the finish line left three dead and at least 264 injured.</div>
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Leading off this year's marathon were the mobility impaired runners, which included bombing survivor Adrianne Haslet. A professional ballroom dancer, Haslet lost a leg in the bombing three years ago. She is one of 21 survivors competing in this year's race. It's her first time running a marathon.</div>
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After about 10 hours of running, she stepped across the finish line on her prosthetic leg and lifted her hands in triumph. Buoyed by the people of Boston who cheered her on, she even got a shout-out from President Barack Obama whose account tweeted: "Terror and bombs can't beat us. We carry on. We finish the race!"</div>
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In a special moment last year, Haslet's two brothers ran the race, and she joined them at the finish line. On Friday, she threw out the ceremonial first pitch at Fenway Park before the Red Sox played the Toronto Blue Jays.</div>
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Haslet wasn't the only survivor to get the honor at Fenway over the weekend. Patrick Downes, who lost his left leg in the 2013 bombings, threw out the first pitch to Red Sox designated hitter David Ortiz on Sunday. Jeff Bauman, who lost both legs in the bombings, threw out the ceremonial first pitch Monday.</div>
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Downes and Haslet both were running to raise money for people with physical disabilities.</div>
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"Adrianne thank you for being my inspiration!! #BostonStrong," said New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady<a href="https://www.facebook.com/TomBrady/?fref=nf" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #006598; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s;" target="_blank"> in a Facebook post Monday</a>.</div>
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Because it's an Olympic year, the best American marathon runners are focusing on training for Rio in August rather than this race. The U.S. Olympic marathon trials were in February in Los Angeles. Many of the top Americans are in Boston, although they didn't hit the pavement. That includes Meb Keflezighi, who was the first American to win the Boston Marathon in 31 years when he did so in 2014, and Shalane Flanagan, a Massachusetts native who has finished twice in the top 10 at the Boston Marathon. Both were at Fenway Park for the ceremonial first pitch on Saturday.</div>
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Around 30,000 people registered for the race. The 26.2-mile course starts in Hopkinton and passes through Ashland, Framingham, Natick, Wellesley, Newton and Brookline before reaching the finish line on Boylston Street in Boston. Up to a million spectators lined the streets to watch and cheer.</div>
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McFadden said this is one of her favorite races because of how it's supported by the Boston community.</div>
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"Coming down the last mile, I got chills, literally goosebumps all over my body," McFadden said. "The crowd was electric today, and that's just what I needed."</div>
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Because of the 2013 bombings, as well as previous terrorist attacks in Brussels and Paris in the last six months, security was tight Monday.</div>
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For the third consecutive year, a number of government agencies and universities offered comprehensive training for public safety personnel supporting the Boston Marathon. They included the Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency (MEMA), Massachusetts State Police (MSP), Massachusetts Department of Fire Services (DFS), Massachusetts Department of Public Health (DPH), Boston Police Department, U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), National Bomb Squad Commanders Advisory Board, New Mexico Tech, Texas A&M Engineering (TEEX), and Louisiana State University.</div>
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More than 500 police officers, firefighters, emergency medical technicians (EMTs) and paramedics attended these training courses leading up to the race, and over 1,800 individuals have been trained over the past two years.</div>
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