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• Tea-shops were to become my favourite haunts in England.

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• Looking back… it’s hard to understand what all the fuss was about as things changed in just a few years. When you look at all the things that have happened in the world, it seems very small.

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• I will never regret not denouncing apartheid.

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• I no longer run barefoot.

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• I have strong views about South African politics and I still don’t feel I need to make public statements.

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• I found them uncomfortable and after that I decided to continue running barefoot because I found it more comfortable. I felt more in touch with what was happening – I could actually feel the track.

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• I can drink tea until the cows come home and I love the atmosphere in tea-shops.

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• Coming from a farming background, I saw nothing out of the ordinary in running barefoot, although it seemed to startle the rest of the athletics world. I have always enjoyed going barefoot and when I was growing up I seldom wore shoes, even when I went into town.

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Zola Budd (8)

Birth:	26th May, 1966
Nationality:	African
Profession:	Runner

About

Zola Pieterse, is a former Olympic track and field competitor who, in less than three years, twice broke the world record in the women's 5000 metres and twice was the women's winner at the World Cross Country Championships.

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