KemetLeadsTheir words
“I have accepted these victories as I accept this tragedy. I must embrace both circumstances as facts of life and find happiness.”
Source: The Olympic Museum (IOC, Lausanne), online exhibit "Abebe Bikila", published on Google Arts & Culture. The Museum prints the line in English only; it names no translator and gives no Amharic original.
Context Said after the March 1969 car crash that left him paralysed from the waist down, five years after his second Olympic marathon gold in Tokyo.
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