Bibliograph

Running for my life, one Lost Boy's journey from the killing fields of Sudan to the Olympic Games, Lopez Lomong, with Mark Tabb

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Running for my life, one Lost Boy's journey from the killing fields of Sudan to the Olympic Games, Lopez Lomong, with Mark Tabb

Language

eng

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Running for my life

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

801418807

Responsibility statement

Lopez Lomong, with Mark Tabb

Sub title

one Lost Boy's journey from the killing fields of Sudan to the Olympic Games

Summary

He was abducted. He was beaten. And he was nearly forced to become a boy solider in his war-torn homeland, Sudan. But he escaped in the night, ran three days, and was taken into a refugee camp in Kenya. He never owned a pair of shoes. He never owned a pen or paper and did schoolwork in the dust with his fingertips. His boyhood was the daily struggle of an orphan, and each day he would run an eighteen-mile lap around the refugee camp just to play a game of soccer. In his wildest dreams, Lopez Lomong couldn't even conceive that Nike would one day be his official sponsor, that he would graduate from college, and that he would represent his new home and bear the American flag in the Summer Olympics

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