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Refugee Runner

September 6, 2016October 10, 2017 by Bill Donahue

Yiech Pur Biel was born amid a civil war in South Sudan. Soldiers burned down his village, his parents left him, he grew up in a refugee camp. Now he’s readying to compete in the Olympics.

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Edited by Vic Seper. Photographs by Georgina Goodwin.

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