This is what makes an athlete

[yatesco]

olympics.nbcsports.com/2016...

The really humbling part (for me) is that she ran 400m with a completely wrecked achilles slightly faster than I ran my recent 7K :-).

[Oldfloss Administrator Graduate]

Thank you so much... for making me cry...I needed that!

Absolutely inspirational young woman.

[yatesco Graduate in reply to Oldfloss]

"I've been called many things, but never an 'Absolutely inspirational young women'" - oh dear, terrible attempt at humour :-).

[Oldfloss Administrator Graduate in reply to yatesco]

Nope.. you are my Guru of the Gadgets!!!!

[cathalicious Graduate]

Wow, her face says it all. I have to confess I also teared up a little bit watching this.

[boptillyoudrop49 Graduate in reply to cathalicious]

Me too. I almost couldn't bear to watch her, kept worrying she would do herself a permanent injury.

[yatesco Graduate]

Wow - all this 'making women cry' reminds of when I started dating as a 'yuff' :-).

[boptillyoudrop49 Graduate in reply to yatesco]

What?! You made women cry?! That's a strange tactic

[yatesco Graduate in reply to boptillyoudrop49]

Re-reading my last two responses, I think I must have woken up with an extra dose of bad 'dad-humour' as my kids like to call it. I think it is safer for everybody with good taste if I lock away my keyboard :-).

[boptillyoudrop49 Graduate in reply to yatesco]

Nah we like your sense of humour on here. It's great.

[Sandraj39 Graduate]

Ouch! 😬😢 Made me cry too. Hope she gets back to athletics.

[Slowstart Graduate]

I'm sure my facial expression was very similar in week 1