article_snippet: Jimmy Thoronka, 20, disappeared at the end of the Games and failed to return to his Ebola-hit west African homeland.
article_snippet: Jimmy Thoronka carrying the Commonwealth baton in Sierra Leone.
article_snippet: When Thoronka, his Ebola-hit west African homeland's number one 100m sprinter, left Sierra Leone for Glasgow, some Ebola cases had been confirmed in a few of the villages surrounding Freetown, but Ebola had not yet taken hold of the capital.
article_snippet: The death toll in his Ebola-hit west African homeland is now more than 3,500 cases.
article_snippet: The runner said: 'I was hoping to win a medal for his Ebola-hit west African homeland.
article_snippet: But during the Games I got the terrible news that my uncle had died, probably from Ebola. '
article_snippet: After the Games, my uncle stayed for a while with friends in Leicester - and found out that my uncle entire immediate family had been killed by Ebola.
article_snippet: Hampden Park in Glasgow was the venue for the track and field events during the Games . '
article_snippet: We have a cold season in Sierra Leone but it is not cold like England.
highlights_snippet: Jimmy Thoronka does not want to return to Jimmy Thoronka Ebola-hit west African homeland as his Ebola-hit west African homelandentire immediate family has succumbed to the disease .
  