Then another.

Zola Budd, though, has had to think about why she runs.

Budd kept running.

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“Emotionally,” Budd says, “I was upset, away from home, missed my family, by myself, it wasn’t the greatest time of my life, to be honest.

'”Would you like to use this article in your publication or on your website? She would get up at 4:45 and run for 30 to 45 minutes. However, several African nations claimed she had competed in an event in South Africa and insisted she be suspended from competition. “Marriage is like cycling,” she says. There were photographs of the missing baby all over the house and every year during holidays and on little Frank’s birthday, Tossie grew quieter, and sadder. (Budd could qualify because of her grandfather’s British birth.

Zola Budd became known to the athletics’ world and beyond in the early eighties when, as a barefooted teenager, she produced one incredible record-breaking performance after another in women’s middle distance running. There was no one for Zola to talk to about Jenny’s death, or her life, or how she was feeling.

Five strides on, at race time of 4:58, Budd and Decker again made contact, with Budd's left foot brushing Decker's thigh, causing Budd to lose her balance and sending her into Decker's path.

She is running to get it back.

Running was so much fun when she was just a child, then it became a release, and finally, a means to an end she never wanted— money and political symbolism and international fame. Mary was screaming at her, I’ll never forget that. But the full impact of the situation didn’t hit her until she’d completed another lap and saw Decker stretched out on the ground, wailing. They married on April 15, 1989.

Budd trained and raced barefoot.In 1984 aged 17 she set a New world record in 5000 meters while running barefoot.Back then running barefoot was seen as a crazy idea but now experts seem to tell us running barefoot is not a crazy idea after all. Only a few strides later the pair collided again. However, both women maintained their close position. She did refrain from speaking out against great and terrible injustice—but so did a lot of other people older and wiser. An injury had kept her from the 1976 Games. She ran harder. Decker stood on Budd, then shortly after, collided with the British runner and fell spectacularly to the curb, injuring her hip.

Decker was carried off the track in tears by her boyfriend (and later, husband), British Budd, deeply affected by the occurrence, continued to lead for a while, but faded, finishing seventh.

More than enough.” But she had been through worse, and when Michael got rid of Pinkie, Zola and her husband reconciled. That winter, she entered the same local 4K she had lost the year before.

Mary ran into Zola from the back…As she fell down, she pushed Zola.” Budd pumped her elbows, kept running.

This time she won. Zola Budd (in front) at the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles, a tiny titan of barefoot running. She had befriended Budd, 13 years her junior, at the race in South Africa where Budd set the world record at 5,000 meters. Officials disqualified her from the race (and an hour later, after reviewing the videotape, rescinded the disqualification). Following South Africa's re-admission to international sport, she competed in the 3000m at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona but did not qualify for the final. They ran barefoot, because all children in rural South Africa ran barefoot. She remembers that her sister’s favorite color was green. She didn’t know the terrible places running would take her. She would be competing in the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics against her idol, a former phenom herself, another runner who drove writers to breathless, pulpy heights. She worked the night shift and she would come home just as the family was having breakfast, and she would have a piece of cake or pie—Jenny always had a sweet tooth—and then she would go to sleep as Zola went off to school. Kenny Moore, then with Sports Illustrated, described Budd’s failed 1984 attempt to break the world record in the 3,000 meters, at a race near Cape Town.

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