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This is the kind of stuff you read and it makes your skin crawl. Kitchens competed in the long jump qualifying round today with Americans Marquise Goodwin and Will Claye and failed to qualify. I dug around a little on Kitchens and turns out he is a Clemson guy that has an amazing life story. Read this article from the Washington Post (Excerpt below): http://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/long-jumper-george-kitchens-survived-childhood-shooting-in-georgia-becomes-an-olympian/2012/07/27/gJQAECCUDX_story.html
George Kitchens was only 12 on the terrible day in November 1995 when he was shot along with his sister and a friend in his Georgia home. He remembers everything about it: The burning in his chest as the bullet hit an inch from his heart. The acrid smell of gunpowder. Hearing one of the attackers mutter, “He’s not dead. He’s not dead. Shoot him again to see.â€
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Guy is a winner even if he didn't make the finals tomorrow.
George Kitchens was only 12 on the terrible day in November 1995 when he was shot along with his sister and a friend in his Georgia home. He remembers everything about it: The burning in his chest as the bullet hit an inch from his heart. The acrid smell of gunpowder. Hearing one of the attackers mutter, “He’s not dead. He’s not dead. Shoot him again to see.â€
Continue reading here.
Guy is a winner even if he didn't make the finals tomorrow.
