Lopez Lomong is a former ` ` ' Boy '' from Sudan who now runs for Team USA . Lomong spent 10 years of his childhood in a refugee camp in Kenya . They are still going hungry for days , they do n't have families , '' he says . He was relocated in the United States as a teenager and became a U.S. citizen in 2007 . In 2008 he was chosen to carry the American flag at Olympics opening ceremony in Beijing .
Lopez Lomong is a former ` ` ' Boy '' from Sudan who now runs for Team USA . Lomong spent 10 years of his childhood in a refugee camp in Kenya . He was relocated in the United States as a teenager and became a U.S. citizen in 2007 . In 2008 he was chosen to carry the American flag at Olympics opening ceremony in Beijing .