YeinJee's Asian Blog » Sudan http://yeinjee.com Asian culture, lifestyle, food, travel, celebrity and entertainment. Fri, 30 Jul 2010 16:21:46 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 No shoes, no problem http://yeinjee.com/2008/no-shoes-no-problem/ http://yeinjee.com/2008/no-shoes-no-problem/#comments Mon, 26 May 2008 08:39:23 +0000 Yein Jee http://yeinjee.com/?p=316 Amna Bakhit of Sudan won the women’s 800 meters at the Olympic athletics test event in Beijing on May 25… with bare feet.

Sudan track runner running on bare feet in Beijing Olympic test event
Run Amna, run! (Image from Xinhuanet)

I am not sure if Sudan is too poor to offer their athletes a pair of running shoes, or that the lady preferred to run in bare feet instead… for me it’s an amazing yet saddening scene.

Hope to see Amna in the Beijing Olympic, I’ll be cheering for her.

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