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March 23, 2016 The Skanner Page 11 Bids & Classified Advertising deadlines 12:00 Noon Monday Hours: Monday - Friday 8:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. To place your ad, email advertising@theskanner.com or go to www.TheSkanner.com and click on the “Ads” menu Athletes 43 athletes selected as contenders for the team, more than half are run- ners from central and western Africa, Miro said. “I was touched by the personal story of each one,” he said in an inter- view with The Associat- ed Press. “But I also was really touched by how much sport means in their lives, not only for the 43, but for all those I met.” IOC President Thomas Bach said he expects be- tween five and 10 athletes will make the team. Miro put the figure at between five and seven. The fi- nal selection will be an- nounced by the IOC at its next executive board meeting in June. “We want to send a message of hope to all the refugees of the world,” Bach said. Miro said 23 of the can- didates fled conflicts in Africa, including South Sudan, Ethiopia, Uganda, Congo, Rwanda, Burundi and Mali. A handful of others left Syria, with a few from Iran and Iraq. In addition to track and field, some of the athletes compete in swimming, judo, taekwondo and shooting. The IOC has already publicly identified three athletes under consider- ation: 17-year-old Syrian swimmer Yusra Mardini, female Iranian taekwon- do athlete Raheleh Ase- mani, and male judoka Popole Misenga of Con- go. Mardini is training in Germany, Asemani in Belgium and Misenga in Brazil. Mardini and her old- er sister, Sarah, were on an inflatable boat with other refugees making the perilous trip from Turkey to Greece a few months ago when their small dinghy started tak- ing on water in the Aege- an Sea. Most of the refu- gees on the overcrowded AP PHOTO/MICHAEL SOHN, FILE cont’d from pg 10 In this Nov. 9, 2015 file photo of Yusra Mardini from Syria poses during a training session in Berlin, Germany. They’ve fled war and violence in the Middle East and Africa. They’ve crossed treacherous seas in small dinghies and lived in dusty refugee camps.They include a teenage swimmer Yusra Mardini from Syria, long-distance runners from South Sudan and judo and taekwondo competitors from Congo, Iran and Iraq. They are striving to achieve a common goal: To compete in the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. Not for their home countries, but as part of the first ever team of refugee athletes. boat couldn’t swim. So the sisters and three others who were also good swimmers jumped into the water. For three hours, they clung onto ropes hanging from the side and helped guide the boat to the Greek island of Lesbos. The Mardini sisters eventually made it to Germany, where a lo- cal charity put them in touch with the Wasser- freunde Spandau 04 swimming club in Berlin, based near their refugee center. They have been train- ing at the pool, which was built for the 1936 Olympics, and Yusra — a butterfly specialist — was selected as a possible member of the Olympic team. Asemani left Iran in 2012 for reasons she has not disclosed and ar- rived in Belgium, where she works for the postal service and trains with Belgium’s national tae- kwondo team. Fighting under the World Tae- kwondo Federation flag at the European Olympic qualifying tournament in Istanbul, she clinched a spot for the Rio Games. It’s possible she could compete for Belgium if she is granted citizen- ship. “It has been such a hard journey. I was lost,” Ase- mani said on the WTF website. “Many times in my head I thought it would not happen be- cause of politics, visa problems, lack of money and I couldn’t travel to (many) ranking events. ... Rio is a dream for me. Hope has carried me to the Olympics. Now I will give all I have to win.” Misenga and Yolande Mabika fled Congo three years ago and sought asy- lum in Brazil during the 2013 world judo champi- onships in Rio. They have been train- ing with the Brazilian judo federation. “I’ve seen too much war, too much death,” Misenga told The Guard- ian newspaper. “I want to stay clean so I can do my sport. I represent every- one. I’ll get a medal for all refugees.” The largest number of potential Olympic ath- letes was drawn from the Kakuma refugee camp in northwestern Kenya, HIRING: DEPUTY CITY ATTORNEY ADVERTISEMENT FOR PASTORAL SEARCH New Covenant Baptist Church is seeking a Pastor to build upon the foundation of the Pastor who planted our church in 2009. 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