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So as spectators watch the games in the coming days, to have the full experience is to consider not only comparative distances, times, strength, and skills, but to remember the lives and experiences that brought each one - and the game itself - to this point. Perhaps simply to be an Olympian is to defy expectations, certainly the laws of averages. So many Olympians throughout history have blasted stereotypes and defied expectations. Yet Harrison is in London, ready to compete, thanks to her mother's decision to move and two Massachusetts coaches with impeccable ethics. Representó a nuestro país en los Juegos Olímpicos Londres 2012 donde fue la primera sudamericana en cruzar la meta y obtener el puesto 25 en su disciplina. That's a double whammy trusting another judo coach would have felt impossible for many. Kayla Harrison (21, U.S.) has been there. Suicidal thoughts are par for the course, often for a long time and especially for a teenager. One of the many side effects of sexual abuse is to feel weak, broken. 'My life is good,' the 1,500-meter runner told Christian Science Monitor correspondent Abdiaziz Ibrahim. He didn't have the equipment, personal trainers, special diet, and other benefits of his competitors, but he never considered that suffering. The road he trained upon was so plagued by sniper fire it was called 'the road of death.' He once fled war to Yemen, surviving days on a crammed little boat without food or water. Mohamed Hassan Mohamed (22, Somalia) has lived with war most of his life. Healthier in fact than his own horse, Whisper, whose illness nearly prevented their participation in London this week. Small of stature and understated, he is still as healthy as a horse.

Nor is this Hoketsu's first Olympics the Japanese dressage competitor also competed at the 1964 Games. Swedish shooter Oscar Swahn was 72 when he competed at the 1920 games. Yet here she is: India's first female Olympic wrestler.īelieve it or not, at 71, Hiroshi Hoketsu is not the oldest Olympian ever to compete. Her non-traditional father encouraged and coached her, but her community was less than pleased and chastised her (although their tune began to change after her first national gold medal). They often marry as children and dress in loose cotton pajamas. Girl babies in her state are often selectively aborted as undesirable. Encouraged by villagers one race at a time, the lightning-fast Tejeda caught the attention of a trainer in 2009, leading her to London.Īs a young girl in a tiny and conservative village in India, Geeda Phogat (now 23) tussled secretly with her sisters. She loved to run - to the store or herding her family's farm animals barefoot.

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She'd never heard of the Olympics her family's mud-brick home didn't include a TV until 2007, when they watched the Beijing games. Gladys Tejeda (age 26, Peru) ran her first race just for kicks 10 years ago with borrowed tennis shoes.

Comparing our own lives, they also serve as a reminder that 'problems' can be relative. One doesn't have to be an athlete to be moved. Further she was selected as Perus flag-bearer for the 2012 Summer Olympics Parade of. Nevertheless, a few take 'inspire' to new heights, breaking barriers of prejudice, war, poverty, and other difficulties. She competed in womens marathon at the 2012 Summer Olympics. All Olympians possess admirable traits by definition - perseverance, strength (of mind and body), and the determination necessary to get them to the opening of the 2012 Olympics in London this month. Tejeda won Peru’s second gold medal of the Pan Am Games in Toronto after trap shooter Francisco Boza won his first gold medal.The Olympic Games teem with inspiring stories. Five runners dropped out of the race.Īfter finishing 43rd in the 2012 Olympics in London, Gladys Tejeda looks forward to competing in Rio de Janeiro in 2016. The humidity makes it difficult for runners to keep their bodies cool. The course featured tough hills on a sweltering day of 86 degrees Fahrenheit with 90% humidity.

Despite the adverse conditions of the day, the other two medalists also finished in times which would have broken the record in what turned out to be a fierce battle for gold. While Tejeda’s winning time of 2:33:03 broke the Pan Am Games record of 2:36:37, it was five minutes more than her personal best. Peruvian runner Gladys Tejeda won the gold medal in the marathon at the 2015 Pan American Games in Toronto on Saturday.