I never paid
tribute to Guor Marial for making us proud London 2012! And that he
preferred to run as an independent olympic athlete, rather than under the Sudan
flag! We also noted your left handed salute to south sudan!
He finished 47th
-11 minutes behind the Ugandan- which is a sign of good things to come.
this is what he
said afterwards..
"I have no problem. I live in the United
States," Marial told reporters after the marathon on Sunday. "I have
running shoes. I'm fine. What about the people that are out there? This is the
reason I was finishing today. For those people. They are in a rough condition,
and I hope that the world is able to help them."
http://www.concordmonitor.com/article/348118/paying-attention-to-south-sudan?SESS961527c7c8cdc0e97b46dd20adf37928=google
Also want to
salute Lopez Lomong who ran the 5,000 as an American, and of course Luol Deng
on the British basketball team.
I think all
this shows that we will be punching above our weight in Rio 2016! (so i
hope south sudan is taking steps to getting us representation).
