South Sudan’s Abraham Majok, training in Japan for the Olympics, aims to bring back two things to his war-torn country after the Games: an Olympic medal and a message on the importance of peace Tokyo2020
MAEBASHI, Japan - Abraham Majok, a South Sudanese 1,500m runner training in Japan for the Tokyo Olympics, aims to bring back two things to his war-torn country after the Games: an Olympic medal and a message on the importance of peace.
“The Olympics, according to my own understanding, is a game of peace, and it happens because the world is at peace ... I have come here and seen the advantages of peace in other countries,” Majok, 20, told Reuters. President Salva Kiir and former rebel leader Riek Machar signed a peace deal in 2018 but are still struggling to form a united government.
South Sudan is one of the world’s poorest countries, with per-capita gross domestic product likely to have come to $275.2 in 2019, or less than 0.3 percent of that of top-ranked Luxembourg, according to International Monetary Fund estimates. In a bid to help them beat the odds and foster much-needed sense of South Sudanese national unity through sports, the city of Maebashi last year decided to host the athletes’ training camp through the Games.
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