A BURNING DESIRE

This is a motivation story of a person whose transpose astonished the world. Who not only challenge the medical science even enlighten the entire world with their burning desire specially to the one who feel that they can't achieve success because of their physical disability.

This story about the great lady Wilma Rudolph. She born prematurely with weight of 2 KG on June 23, 1940. Because of this she have been through several early childhood illness like Pneumonia, Scarlet fever and Polio at very early age of 5 years. She recovered from Polio but lost strength of her left leg and foot. Doctor provided her a braces to step on the floor and to walk.

Doctor also said don't step you leg without braces.

Wilma's mother was the main spark who make her walk without braces. As She said " You would walk without braces". Yes it is true you are special kid and the same way you need to live your life. She did with here persistent diligence and with only one determination to walk, later she build a habit to run. She Participated in events and end up in last position. Participated again made some progresses and continued. In US Olympic preliminary she set a world record for 200 Meter that stood for 8 years.

   

In 1960 Rome Olympic we all know the story and now it is history. She participated in 100 M, 200 M sprint and 4X100 M race and successfully accomplished Gold Medal in each of the event. She became the first American women to get 3 Gold Medal in single Olympic.

One of the Prestigious prize in sports is THE WILMA RUDOLPH AWARD OF COURAGE given by Women Sports Foundation.

I Loved the feeling of freedom in running, the fresh air, the feeling that the only person I'm competing with is me.