uor Maker was a lost boy struggling to find his way in a strange world when he met track coach Rusty Cofrin. Maker was a refugee from Sudan who'd escaped a land of ...
Guor Maker was 8 when his parents sent him away, alone, from their village in Sudan to escape the war that plagued their homeland. He was captured and enslaved, but managed to gain freedom by running ...
He was dubbed the “man without a country” who found he was at home running in one of athletics’ toughest events. Guor Mading Maker’s story makes most sporting tales of triumph over adversity look like ...
The latest chapter of a previously heartwarming story has turned into a confusing and contentious dispute. Now the International Olympic Committee is trying to help resolve the clash that has led the ...
Guor Marial (right), a 2005 Concord High graduate, competes in Australia’s Gold Coast Marathon in July 2016 in an attempt to qualify for the 2016 Rio Olympics. That race is part of the new documentary ...
THE OLYMPIC Games are full of inspiring stories – but Guor Marial’s may the most extraordinary of them all. The South Sudanese marathon runner has survived a brutal civil war, been sold into slavery, ...
uor Maker was a lost boy struggling to find his way in a strange world when he met track coach Rusty Cofrin. Maker was a refugee from Sudan who'd escaped a land of ...