44-Year-Old Former Refugee Is Oldest Runner on US Olympic Team

June 21, 2021

At 44, Abdi Abdirahman is the oldest American runner to ever make the U.S. Olympic team. The five-time Olympian says he’s “representing all those middle-aged men… who think they cannot run.” Somalia-born Abdi was a child when his family was forced into refugee camps. They eventually settled in Arizona and Abdirahman become a U.S. citizen. His family did not believe he made the Olympic team until they saw him on television during the 2000 Summer Olympics Opening Ceremony.

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