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- Title: Journey of a Lifetime (Sports)
- Author : The Virginian Pilot
- Release Date : January 03, 2008
- Genre: Reference,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 51 KB
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EUGENE, Ore. / It was last Christmas when Lopez Lomong finally returned to the village where his parents buried him 17 years ago. / A small pile of rocks still marked a memorial, he said. / "No, I'm here," Lomong, 23, said he told himself. "I did not die." / His attempt this week to make the U.S. Olympic track team in the 1,500 meters will culminate a heart-wrenching journey from child prisoner in war-torn East Africa to refugee among the so-called Lost Boys of Sudan to U.S. citizen and elite middle-distance runner. / "After all he's been through, he's not easily rattled," said John Hayes, who coaches Lomong, a favorite to claim one of three Olympic spots in the 1,500. "He doesn't fear anyone." At age 6, Lomong was swept into Sudan's civil war. He and other children were abducted in 1991 by a government-backed militia as they attended Catholic Mass in the southern village of Kimotong. Get on the ground, the soldiers ordered the parishioners. When Lomong's father resisted, he was hit with the butt of a gun. The boys were placed in a tarp-covered truck and driven away.