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Olympics boycott call is the height of skewed leadership

Arriving at sunset with a badly bruised knee and dislocated joint, long after other athletes had crossed the finish line during the 1968 Mexico Olympics, Tanzanian Marathon runner John Stephen Akhwari, was asked why he continued running.

He said: "My country did not send me 10,000 miles just to start the race; they sent me to finish the race."

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