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Really?! How young are you?

South African runner to decided to represent Team GB in the 1984 Olympics. Can't remember why, maybe it was in the apartheid era and South Africa were banned from competing.
Not sure how she managed to just turn up and decide she was British.
It was issued by decree from Mrs Thatcher, Express delivery and the poor girl had a calamity in her first outing. tripped up the race favourite, an American