She ran in front of the world. Finished last. And the entire stadium stood up.

Samia Yusuf Omar grew up in Mogadishu during one of the most violent periods of the Somali Civil War. She lost her father to a mortar attack. She trained on a crater-filled track while armed militias threatened her for running in public. And at 17 years old — with borrowed shoes and no professional coach — she stepped onto the track at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

She finished last. By a wide margin.

The crowd gave her a standing ovation anyway.

What happened next is the part most people never hear.

In this episode:

• The girl who trained on a bombed-out track in a war zone
• The moment 91,000 people stood up for last place
• The journey she took to try to get back to the Olympics
• And the human l ...