Don't Quit (Video)

I love to hear stories of people who just don't quit. We live in a society which teaches that if things get hard, that you can give up and find something else to do. Growing up, I heard many great stories. Sometimes you are not sure if they are all true or not. Until now, I had never known the validity of it. I ran across this on the blog of a friend.

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It was the most memorable moment of the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona. Four years earlier, just 10 minutes before the starting gun, record-holder Derek Redmond had withdrawn from running the 400 meter race due to an Achilles tendon injury. Five surgeries and four years later he wanted to win a medal.

Moments into the race Derek was in the lead, a shoo-in to win the race with only 175 meters to go. Then he heard a pop – his right hamstring snapped. He fell to the surface. After the other runners passed him, he got up on one leg and started hopping, not toward the infield and the medics and stretchers, but toward the finish line.

65,000 people in the stands and millions around the world watched via television and they were all clapping, cheering and crying. Derek’s dad jumped from the stands to support his trip down the track. At the last moment Jim Redmond let go of his son so he could cross the line alone.

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I do not blindly endorse YouTube, but you gotta check out this video.

We need more fathers who will teach their children to finish the race which God has given them. Don't quit!

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