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South African Wayde Van Niekerk's world record

At the 2016 Olympics in Brazi, South Africa鈥檚 Wayde Van Niekerk went against the odds to break a 17-year-old world record held by Michael Johnson. As part of our series on Africa's greatest Olympians, this is his story in his own words.

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