Three Kenya-born long-distance runners will be competing at the Rio Olympics this August for Team USA. Paul Chelimo, Shadrack Kipchirchir and Leonard Korir will be wearing the USA uniform in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Because they are soldiers in the U.S. Army, the runners were able to apply for and receive U.S. citizenship without waiting the usual three or five years. Chelimo will compete in the 5-kilometer race in Rio de Janeiro. Kipchirchir and Korir will run in the 10-kilometer race. All of the runners competed at the recent Olympic Trials in the state of Oregon. They made the team by finishing in the top three in their events. The Kenya-born athletes had attended universities in the U.S. and were members of their school’s track and field teams.
Title: Kenyan Runners Find Place on US Olympic Team
Content: <div id='article-page'><div id='article-content' data-media-url='//news-app-staging.s3.amazonaws.com' data-base-url='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1231/Kenyan_audio.m4a' data-capture-url='//staging.analytics.lingraphica.com/events/capture_news' data-article-title='Kenyan Runners Find Place on US Olympic Team' data-article-id='1736'><script src='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/javascripts/getscripts.js'></script><link rel='stylesheet' href='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/stylesheets/article.css' type='text/css' /><div class='article'><p><span data-start-time='0' data-end-time='9667'>Three Kenya-born long-distance runners will be competing at the Rio Olympics this August for Team USA.</span> <span data-start-time='9667' data-end-time='23792'>Paul Chelimo, Shadrack Kipchirchir and Leonard Korir will be wearing the USA uniform in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.</span> <span data-start-time='23792' data-end-time='39583'>Because they are soldiers in the U.S. Army, the runners were able to apply for and receive U.S. citizenship without waiting the usual three or five years.</span> <span data-start-time='39583' data-end-time='46854'>Chelimo will compete in the 5-kilometer race in Rio de Janeiro.</span> <span data-start-time='46854' data-end-time='52375'>Kipchirchir and Korir will run in the 10-kilometer race.</span> <span data-start-time='52375' data-end-time='59042'>All of the runners competed at the recent Olympic Trials in the state of Oregon.</span> <span data-start-time='59042' data-end-time='65688'>They made the team by finishing in the top three in their events.</span> <span data-start-time='65688' data-end-time='75792'>The Kenya-born athletes had attended universities in the U.S. and were members of their school’s track and field teams.</span> </p></div><div class='control-buttons-sticky' style='display:none;'><div class='control-buttons'><button title='Back' class='back' 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