RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — He's had no home for most of his life. Yet in a cavernous, mostly-empty stadium in Brazil, a world away from where he came from, Yiech Pur Biel felt as if he'd found one.
Unseen and alone no more, the refugee runner heard the cheers washing over him.
One of 10 members of the Olympic refugee team, Yiech took to the track for 800-meter qualifying Friday to write the latest chapter in a story that began on the dusty ground at the Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya, and led all the way to Rio de Janeiro
"We're refugees," said Yiech, who has had no country to call home since he was a child.