Meet David Brown, a record-breaking blind sprinter who will be running in the Tokyo Paralympics. 'I just want to let them know, especially the blind community, that this is definitely possible.'
Brown fueled his passion into training as a sprinter and in 2014 he started working with a running guide, Jerome Avery. Once they got together, it didn't take long for the two to set a world record.Brown and Avery have been working side-by-side for seven years. They run tethered together, barely six inches apart.But when Brown hits the track in Tokyo, though, he won't have Avery by his side since the runner suffered an injury that's put him on the sidelines.
"It was a very tough decision to switch guides, and a very, very, very saddening one at the same time, because of course, me and Jerome have been running together for a long time," Brown said. Still, Avery will surely be there in spirit and Brown is ready to take the pair's past success to the next level in Tokyo.
"I've had so much success already within this realm of sport and it's very humbling to me and to everybody who's looking up to me, blind as well as sighted alike," he said."I just want to let them know, especially the blind community, that this is definitely possible."
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