Archery

U.S. team picks Georgian to lead them in closing ceremony

In the opening ceremony, the U.S. flagbearer was Sudanese-born runner Lopez Lomong, who fled Sudan as a war refugee. At the closing ceremony, the flagbearer will be Georgia-born Khatuna Lorig, an archer whose parents fled their home in the Georgian city of Gori when Russian troops invaded and are still staying with her brother in the capital of Tbilisi. » read more

Posted on Sat, August 23, 2008

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