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I couldn’t walk for a week, That’s when the penny dropped for me. I saw my life flash in front of me when those guys were beating me.

— Luvo Manyonga

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Me trying to take another [drug] hit right now is death for me.

The long jump has given me so much in my life. It makes me smile even when life is difficult. No matter what difficulties and challenges I have faced in my life, long jump has kept me going.

I felt like there was nothing left for me.

All I’m prepared to say, is that no record should last for ever. I fully realise that this record is going to be improved at some stage by a young talented athlete. And I will be happy for whoever does so because that is how it works in athletics.

Sport can give you a natural high so, when I wasn’t in sport, I would look for something that would give me that, Whenever I came back to South Africa, I wanted that feeling.

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