This Runner Finished Last, but Her Perseverance Won Over a Nation
Briefly

Runner number 401 was dead tired and suffering from low blood pressure.She was also last by a wide margin in the 5,000 meters and plodding alone, through a raucous rainstorm, around the track of a near-empty stadium.Bou Samnang, 20, finished the race anyway.Her rain-soaked performance at the Southeast Asian Games this year's edition was hosted this month by her home country, Cambodia would have been a footnote in a tournament that is unknown to most sporting fans outside the region.
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