<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/f40c596f-a0be-4224-b3cb-667c7d925dc5/3B674C0C-F0C5-465F-A779-4C1659A381F0/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080807/sp_afp/oly2008usaflagsuddarfurlomong" href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080807/sp_afp/oly2008usaflagsuddarfurlomong" style="font-size: 11px;">news.yahoo.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080807/sp_afp/oly2008usaflagsuddarfurlomong"><H1> <DIV class="source"> <A href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/afp/brand/SIG=ofqlv2;_ylt=AklA_2WlZwz5eSB1iWYz9c3GOrgF/*http://www.afp.com"><IMG height="27" border="0" width="51" alt="AFP" src="http://l.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/us/nws/p/afp_logo_51.png" /></A> </DIV> Darfur "Lost Boy" to carry US flag at Olympic ceremony </H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080807/sp_afp/oly2008usaflagsuddarfurlomong"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/news.yahoo.com/img/92ED4BAC-5BEA-4FE4-83D6-0AA1E14D6992" alt="Lopez Lomong competes in June. Lomong, one of the "Lost Boys" of Sudan who was a victim of violence in Darfur, was named Thursday as the United States flag bearer for the opening ceremony at the Beijing Olympics.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Andy Lyons)" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080807/sp_afp/oly2008usaflagsuddarfurlomong"><P> BEIJING (AFP) - Lopez Lomong, one of the "<SPAN id="lw_1218075101_0" class="yshortcuts">Lost Boys" of Sudan</SPAN> who was a victim of violence in Darfur, was named Thursday as the <SPAN id="lw_1218075101_1" class="yshortcuts">United States flag bearer</SPAN> for the opening ceremony at the <SPAN id="lw_1218075101_2" class="yshortcuts">Beijing Olympics</SPAN>. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080807/sp_afp/oly2008usaflagsuddarfurlomong"><P> US captains in every Olympic sport met at the Olympic Village and voted to award the honor for Friday's ceremony to Lomong, a sensitive choice given criticism of Chinese foreign policy over the conflict in Darfur.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080807/sp_afp/oly2008usaflagsuddarfurlomong"><P> "This is the most exciting day ever in my life," Lomong said. "It's a great honor for me that my teammates chose to vote for me.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080807/sp_afp/oly2008usaflagsuddarfurlomong"><P> Lomong, 23, was kidnapped from his family by the Janjaweed militia and taken hostage. He and other youths escaped and spent three days on the run before crossing the border into <SPAN id="lw_1218075101_3" class="yshortcuts">Kenya</SPAN> and being taken to a refugee camp.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080807/sp_afp/oly2008usaflagsuddarfurlomong"><P> He spent years there just fighting to survive and famously paid five Kenyan shillings to watch a black and white television telecast of the 2000 Sydney Olympics.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/3B674C0C-F0C5-465F-A779-4C1659A381F0/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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