\u2019N OUD-LEERLING van die Ho\u00ebrskool Cradock is onlangs terug van Switserland waar hy in \u2019n hindernis-wedloop as begeleier van \u2019n blinde Suid-Afrikaanse kampioenatleet deelgeneem het.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Xavier Adams (22), wat in Michausdal, Cradock grootgeword het, is \u2019n valskermtroep in Bloemfontein en moes onlangs kies tussen \u2019n offisierskursus of om saam met Louzanne Coetzee (24), \u2019n w\u00eareldkampioen-atleet van Bloemfontein, in St. Gallen in Switserland te gaan deelneem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Xavier, wat lid is by die Kov- siesatletiekklub, vertel dat hy, nadat hy Rufus Botha \u2013 Louzanne se afrigter \u2013 op die atletiekbaan ontmoet het, gekies is om saam met haar te oefen en kort daarna aangewys is om haar gids in veld- en baannommers te word.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Louzanne is \u2019n w\u00eareldkampioen in die 5 000m vir gesiggestremdes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sy het die 5 000m rekord verlede jaar twee maal verbeter en ook die Suid-Afrikaanse 800m en 500m se rekords verbeter. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sy het ook ander gidse wat haar in verskeie ander nommers begelei.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2019n Dag nadat sy en Xavier aan die nasionale atletiekbyeenkoms vir gestremde atlete in Bloemfontein deelgeneem het, het sy en Xavier Switserland toe vertrek vir die studente-w\u00eareldkampioenskappe in veldlope.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Oor die besoek aan Switserland, het Xavier vertel: \u201cDit was nie Louzanne se eerste besoek aan die land nie en ons albei het dit baie geniet. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cDie land is baie skoon, maar die mense se Engels is nie van die beste nie. Vir my was die tyd te kort en alles baie duur, maar as ek weer so \u2019n geleentheid kry sal ek weer wil gaan.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Nadat hy en Louzanne die 10km landloop \u2013 wat op die oog af baie moeilik lyk \u2013 voltooi het, het Xavier ook in St. Gallen aan die 10 km welwillendheidwedloop vir Spesiale Olimpiade deelgeeem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Terug in die land het Xavier \u2019n vinnige draai by sy ouerhuis in Cradock gemaak en saam met sy pa, Lucky Adams, aan die 41ste Bruintjieshoogte-marathon oor 25 km deelgeneem. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Xavier het \u2019n derde plek behaal. Hy het in \u2019n huis grootgeword waar hardloop \u2019n groot rol speel en waar sy pa, Lucky, reeds twintig keer aan die Comrades Marathon deelgeneem het.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cLouzanne inspireer my geweldig. As ek besef hoe sy met haar gestremdheid presteer, moedig dit my, met twee normale o\u00eb, geweldig aan,\u201d het hy ges\u00ea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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