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Finish the Race
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
Chris Mazdzer won a silver medal at the 2018 Winter Olympics. His medal was in the luge competition and is the first luge medal for an American man in the history of the Olympic Games. Before the Games, Mazdzer’s world ranking was sliding as he was struggling in some kind of rut. Just a few weeks before…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 10 views
Poland’s Maria Andrejczyk won a silver medal at the Tokyo Olympics. But that was not her greatest accomplishment. She sacrificed her prize to help a stranger. When she heard about her countryman’s plight, she put her medal up for auction to help pay for the baby Miłoszek Małys needed heart surgery. She…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 5 views
Jamaican hurdler Hansel Parchment may not have won a gold medal in Tokyo, if a stranger had not intervened. Parchment took the wrong bus on the day of his event. He was listening to music, when he looked up and realized the bus was going the wrong way and he had no idea where he was. In a social media…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 10 views
In February 2018, Chloe Kim became the youngest female snowboarder to win gold at the Winter Olympics. She was the first to do a back-to-back 1080s in competition. Her story is more than Olympic gold but also of her family’s immigrant story. Her father, Jog Jin Kim, left his career to become her driver…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 17 views
Michael Phelps is a retired American swimmer who holds the record for the most Olympics medals won by any athlete at 28, including 23 gold medals and 13 individual gold metals. Phelps competed in his first Olympics at the age of 15, as part of the U.S. men's swim team. He was the first American male…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 5 views
The chef for the Norwegian Olympic Team said he had to work hard to come up with things he could make with eggs after the team made a typo in their food order. Chef Tore Ovrebo said the eggs were more a misunderstanding than something they needed because of 1,500, they ordered 15,000. Ovrebo said the…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
Kim Hyon-hui was a young student in 1987 when the North Korean government took her out of school and trained her for a special mission. After months of training, agents gave her a time bomb shaped like a radio. Her mission; put the bomb aboard a South Korean Airliner headed for Seoul then leave the plane…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 18 views
U.S. Olympic doctor Larry Nassar has been accused and found guilty of molesting hundreds of underage girls as both the Olympic Gymnastics doctor and a doctor and professor at Michigan State University. The first girl to allege publicly that Nassar was a child molester was Rachael Denhollander. She was…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 28 views
During the 2016 Summer Olympic Games held in Rio de Janeiro, New Zealand’s Nikki Hamblin and America’s Abbey D’agostino competed against one another in the 5000 meter race. Neither won the race, but they both participated into one of the most memorial events in Olympic history. Midway through the race,…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
Ryan Schneider did not compete in the 2018 Winter Olympic Games, but as a chaplain, he had the opportunity to chat and mingle with many who did. Schneider knows a lot of the American winter Olympians because he serves a church in Lake Placid, New York, where many Olympians train. Schneider met many athletes…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 16 views
Will Claye thought he had qualified for the 2016 Olympic team in the long jump but when officials ruled that his jumps were wind-aided, he discovered that he did not qualify. He did not give up. Instead, he regrouped and qualified for the team with his performance in the triple jump. He said afterward…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 114 views
When President Jimmy Carter announced on Meet the Press, January 20, 1980 that he intended to boycott the Moscow Olympic Games, it altered the lives of many American athletes, like Bob Bugg. He had qualified for the U.S. Olympic trials already, unlike many others, and could have earned a place on the…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 10 views
Spanish runner Ivan Fernandez Anaya was running in second place in the 3,000-meter steeplechase at the London Olympics. As they came down the finishing straight, he was trailing the leader, Abel Mutai from Kenya, by a distance too great to overcome. Mutai would get the gold, Anaya would settle for silver.…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 28 views
Jong Sim Rim won the 3rd weightlifting gold medal for North Korea and, like all North Korean athletes, she credited her success to the great leadership of the North Korean Supreme Leader Kim, Jong Un. However, few people from the western world take this seriously. So what was the real reason for the…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 11 views
When professional athletes misbehave on the field, or in a public setting, the fine the league imposes may benefit the community. The Philadelphia Eagles recently announced that receiver Riley Cooper was being fined for a racial rant. Though they did not reveal the amount of the fine, they said the money…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 11 views
When Jennifer Nichols makes her third Olympic appearance in London, she will carry a tiny book of Bible verses in her quiver along with her arrows. Nichols qualified for the Olympics when she won her third consecutive match at final qualifying games. She has never won a gold medal, but says she is training…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 3 views
A man from London, on vacation in France, caught the Olympic fever. He announced the grandiose plan to swim to America carrying the Olympic flame across the Atlantic. The distance is 3600 miles. He fell just a little bit short. Only 300 yards offshore lifeguards rescued him. Much like a person’s attempt…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 8 views
Ingeborg Sjöqvist is the world’s oldest living Olympian. She is 100-years-old. In her younger days she was a high-diver competing in the 1932 and the 1936 Olympics for her native Sweden. While she fondly remembers the events surrounding the Los Angeles Olympics, the high-diving itself is heartbreaking.…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
José Cárcamo once though hope was found in being a communist rebel and social activist. He studied in Chile, Cuba and Russia, and then fought to change the political course of his homeland. When the fighting ended in 1989, Cárcamo, known as Pepe, discovered that he had lost everything. His marriage…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 7 views
After a stampede at an Ohio concert killed 11 people, a December, 1979 appearance by the rock group, The Who in Rhode Island was cancelled. 17-year-old Emery Lucier was so upset when he heard the news that he knocked over a chair in his high school classroom. Now 50, Lucier will have the opportunity…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 23 views
Louie Zamperini was an Olympic class athlete, running in the 1936 Berlin games as a youngster. He was looking forward to the 1940 Olympics, first scheduled for Tokyo, then Finland, and finally cancelled completely because of World War II. His story of crashing, surviving the ocean only to be captured…
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 104 views
We need to grasp this! God has a powerful purpose for you and me. Chariots of Fire is the true story of two British runners competing in the 1924 Olympics. Eric Liddell is a devout Christian and one of the finest runners in the world. His sister, Jennie, doesn’t really approve of what he is doing. Jennie…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 15 views
With only a couple laps to go in a race he thought he was winning, Dutch Ice Skater Sven Kramer was troubled when he looked into the stands. He saw his girlfriend as he passed. Instead of cheering, she had buried her face in her hands. Kramer said he knew that something was not right. When he finished…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 5 views
CONTENTMENT Not many people get to retire in their 40’s—Varner was one of the lucky ones. Varner was a Strength and Conditioning Coach for Clemson University when they won the National Championship in 1981-82 and the ’82 Orange Bowl. He also coached athletes in the ’88, ’92 and ’94 Winter Olympics. His…