One of the world’s top distance runners, Dominic Lobalu dreams of climbing the podium at the Olympic Games
Doing so would be the most joyous moment of his itinerant life to date, during which Lobalu left war-torn South Sudan as a nine-year-old orphan for refugee camps in northern Kenya. There is, however, a caveat. Despite his fast times and success at races around Europe last year, Lobalu currently has no national representation; without that, he is unable to compete at next year’s Olympics in Paris, nor the upcoming world championships in Budapest.
“He’s a talented athlete, he’s got an amazing story of persistence and determination,” World Athletics spokesperson Jackie Brock-Doyle tells CNN Sport. “We absolutely understand that it is important to him [to compete at the Olympics and world championships]; we just need to find a way to make this happen if we can. “Without a doubt, we would like Dominic to be at these events and competing for a country that he wants to compete for.
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