My favourite article on the Olympics. Just magnificent. Tahmina Kohistani of Afghanistan, we salute you.
KATHLEEN PARKER The Washington Post – August 10, 2012
Other dreams may be equal to this, but few are as accessible. Every able-bodied person on the planet can run, knows the feeling of running full speed and the exhilaration of crossing the finishing line, but unless you’re Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, someone is always faster. Never mind – whoever may be faster in the next lane, the fastest person in the runner’s heart is themself.
The feeling of fastest possible, although known to most, is indescribable. It is too bad life eventually slows the sprinter in every child.
Running is unique as a sport by virtue of its utter purity, requiring nothing more than a willing body and force of spirit. No accoutrements – no bats, balls, helmets, motors, masks, goggles, oars, nets, padding, bars or beams. It’s just you against the ground, gravity and your own heart. Read the entire article here.
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Tahmina Kohistani is so courageous and it doesn’t matter that she didn’t win. What matters is that Tahmina a woman is challenging men’s claims to have the right to oppress women. That is the issue and fact despite all the insults men continue to hurl at her she refuses to submit.
This is what makes men so very, very afraid because if women were to rise up and challenge male oppression en masse the world would indeed be turned upside down.
Gold medals become worthless compared to female courage, the courage which men refuse to see because it is not about them. Keep running Tahmina and I so hope other girls and women see Tahmina and realise they are more than men’s disposable sexual service stations.