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July 23, 2024Fanny Blankers-Koen: The flying dutchmam
Life will come with ups and downs. If your true life mission parallels your inner talents, your mission will succeed. You will face setbacks. Sometimes big ones. Sometimes small ones.
The trick is to get up and keep going. This will help you in achieving your higher goal. Fanny Blankers-Koen had exceptionally muscular legs. At a young age she showed a talent for gymnastics and athletics. In 1935 she was the first woman to run the 800 meters.
The fact that a woman participated in athletics was already exceptional, but a mother who ran competitions was unheard of.
In 1940 she excelled at the Olympic Games in Helsinki, but it would take another war and two pregnancies before she won her four golden medals in 1948. She became an example for girls, women and mothers worldwide.
If you truly know what you’ll have to achieve, you will get wings.
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