Beijing2008/Nagmeldin Ali Abubakr

Sprints Sudan Age: 22

Nagmeldin Ali Abubakr is a 400m runner from Nyala, in the western Sudanese district of Sudan, who won the world youth championships in Canada in 2003. He is a sergeant in the Sudanese army, and a member of the Zaghawa tribe, one the ethnic groups of Darfuris that rose up against the Sudanese government in 2003, sparking the civil war that has killed 200,000 and made refugees of 2.5 million more. Abubakr and his teammates have to fight attempts to bar all Sudanese from the Games, as well as indifference and lack of resources in their own country. Their kit is donated by a British charity, they train in a stadium in Khartoum that is only half-finished, and to build their strength, they lift weights made out of concrete blocks attached to metal poles.

短跑 苏丹 年龄：22

阿布巴克尔，来自苏丹西部的尼亚拉400米跑选手，曾赢得2003年加拿大世界青年锦标赛冠军，他是苏丹军队的一名中士，也是扎格哈瓦部落（一个位于达尔福尔的种族，2003年奋起反对苏丹政府，引发了造成20.0万人死亡和250万以上难民的内战）的成员。阿布巴克和他的队友不仅要克服国人漠视体育和资源短缺的问题，还要和试图阻止国家抵制奥运会。他们在喀土穆的一个未完工的运动场进行训练，训练设备由一家英国慈善机构捐赠，为了增强力量，他们用混凝土块黏在金属杆上来举重。