Hasely Crawford was thinking about sacrifice as he waited for the blast of the starter’s pistol, moments before the 100 metres race that would change his life on July 24, 1976.
“I was running for my mother,” Crawford told the Express. “The last thing I remember on the line was my mother toiling with 12 children; washing this one shirt and one pants every night to go to school tomorrow morning.”
Propelled by gratitude for his widowed mother’s selfless devotion...
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Author: Kwame Laurence