He did not run in the Olympics, however. Morocco only sent one runner to compete in the marathon, and that was Salah Qoqaïche, who finished sixth. Instead, Dacha ran the San Francisco Marathon in August, finishing in 2:17:30. He wore longer shorts and had a bottle problem that mixed up his race, though he still managed to stay ahead of Nivaldo Filho and Peter Renner. At the finish line, Dacha was 46 seconds behind Mexican winner Sergio Jimenez.
