It was a decade ago when Weynay Ghebresilasie carried the flag for Eritrea at the Olympic Games in London. Fearful of life in a country where forced conscription was the norm and with an estimated 10,000 political prisoners, he never went home. Now he is nursing a new Olympic dream.
Ghebresilasie, 28, dug deep to finish ninth in the TCS London Marathon, which earned him a trophy as the first…
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