A SECOND BEFORE THE CRASH
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Ongoing5m
Last published Wed, Nov 7, 2018
I think our biggest failure as a race is we forget the importance of time. We underestimate the power of a second. In the great sports and olympics, racers and runners are distinguished by tenths of seconds. How do you comprehend something like that. There's a fine line between winning and loss. Sometimes an even finer line with life and death. This is my attempt to describe the most traumatising second of my life. As I try to recollect my thoughts of what happened most of the events will always remain a blur.
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