South Sudanese runner Paulo Amotun Lokoro is among a group 29 athletes named to the International Olympic Committee's Refugee Olympic Team.He will compete in the Summer Games in Tokyo from July 23 to August 8.Lokoro fled conflict in South Sudan and joined others at the large Kakuma refugee camp in northwestern Kenya in 2006.He did not know at the time that he would soon take part in international sports.Lokoro became interested in the Olympics when he was urged to compete in a 2015 marathon at Kakuma.The event was organized by the United Nations' refugee agency and Kenya's Tegla Loroupe.Loroupe was the first African woman to win a major marathon, beginning with the New York City marathon in 1994.Lokoro said of the Kakuma marathon, "I didn't know I would go far. I was just running.I went to the field and jogged. I didn't have the psychology of being in front or behind.My aim was to just follow the people going in front of me. I found some guys were tired, and then I led them."
