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African Refugee Is Oldest-ever US Olympic Runner

African-born Meb Keflezighi will be the oldest U.S. Olympic runner in history when he competes in the marathon at the 2016 Summer Games in Rio de Janeiro. He will be 41 years old. Keflezighi, in training and racing, has run enough kilometers to circle the globe more than four times. He already has been to the Olympics three times and won a silver medal at the 2004 Athens Olympics. His athletics career started in middle school. “I ran a 5:20 mile and that got me an “A.” [I] got a...

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