LONDON (Reuters) - South Sudan marathon runner Guor Marial will officially compete under the Olympic flag at the London 2012 Games but deep down he will represent his new nation and its long-suffering refugees, he told Reuters.
Marial, 28, who has lived in the United States since he was 16 having fled Sudan during the long civil war, could not join the U.S. team as he does not have citizenship.
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