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my name is Yakov ferin I'm a courtroom artist sketching the Oscar Pistorius case I'm a personal friend of Oscar for
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the last 10 years we've met uh at University of Petoria uh track and field Club where he was a Youngster I can
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vividly remember when he had his first fall and he fell and he just got up and ran further and kept on going until he
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was this International athlete we met in court he first at first didn't know I was there it was full of media
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right in front of him so he just kept looking down and from time to time looked up and at a certain stage when
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everything was quiet I had to stand up right in the corner um to draw the judge and he saw somebody rising and he saw it
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was me we made eye contact and he realized that I was a courtroom artist and and his um head just fell into his
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hands and he went down I had to push through because I have to separate yourself emotionally from from your
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profession for both of us it was it was a very difficult time I think that first
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day our relationship right now is is is um we thought it will be more awkward but uh it's
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actually 100% the same as that it was on on the track every time he has got a break he comes and sit next to me
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because uh we don't talk about the case this is the biggest fight of his life Oscar is the toughest person that I do
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know with everything he has endured in his life people out there must know he's probably the toughest person that that
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anybody will know