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South Sudanese Man Runs for Refugee Olympic Team 4 hours ago FILE - Paulo Amotun Lokoro, a refugee from South Sudan, part of the refugee athletes who qualified for the 2016 Rio Olympics, stretches during a training session in Ngong township near Kenya s capital Nairobi, June 9, 2016. Share share The URL has been copied to your clipboard 0:00 0:03:45 0:00 Pop-out player South Sudanese runner Paulo Amotun Lokoro is among a group 29 athletes named to the International Olympic Committee’s Refugee Olympic Team. He will compete in the Summer Games in Tokyo from July 23 to August 8. Lokoro fled conflict in South Sudan and joined others at the large Kakuma refugee camp in northwestern Kenya in 2006. He did not know at the time that he would soon take part in international sports.

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