Following his Country’s failure to set up an Olympic Committee in  the upcoming Olympics, South Sudanese marathon runner, Guor Marial has recently won his bid to run in the 2012 Olympic that will be held in London. Born in what is now the Republic of South Sudan, Guor Marial will not be wearing the flag of the newly independent country in the 2012 Olympics. Marial fled to the US during Sudan’s two-decade civil war, the 28 year old  athlete turned down an offer to join the Sudanese team, with games opening Friday, the Olympic Committee suggested earlier that Marial runs representing Sudan who lost about 28 family members in the war.