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Old 08-12-2012, 06:41   #40
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Originally Posted by Gypsy View Post


I apologize but I cannot remember the name of the US runner who completed his portion of a relay on a broken leg. Unreal.
This fellow?
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"I was doing my job," Mitchell said. "But probably at 201 meters, I heard it and I felt it."

He credited something more than simple adrenaline for pushing him the rest of the way around the track.

"Faith, focus, finish. Faith, focus, finish. That's the only thing I could say to myself," he said.
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