Done a runner
Mami Konneh Lahun, a 24-year-old athlete from Sierra Leone, went missing after finishing as the 20th-placed woman in the London Marathon. She is not the first athlete to have done a runner.
— In the 2002 Commonwealth Games, 20 of her compatriots failed to return home.
— After the London Olympics, 21 athletes went missing, including seven from Cameroon and three from Sudan.
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