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I'm Bill schroer I was the Headmaster at Petoria boys high school during the time
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that Oscar pus was a student there I just liked what I saw I understand he came to your attention more when his
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running career took off later in the school years do you remember anything before that what kind of kid he was I
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mean I've often been asked you know was what sort of boy was he and and the fact
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that he never ever entered my space in 3 and a half years you know indicates that
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there was never anything unto tell me about the first time you saw Oscar run you know he he was never an athlete at
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the school he took part in everything he injured his knee playing rugby and part
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of the rehabilitation which was done at the high performance center was to get onto a track and run and that's when it
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all just it just happened and what was it like watching him run watching him saw little bit s of mind-blowing in a
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way I mean it was something that was you know so different to anything we'd ever
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seen before and he became famous while still at school how did you handle that that's that was the challenge that's
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when I got to know him really well did he see himself as different no but he was certainly enjoying the sudden
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meteoric rise to F and who wouldn't how did you feel when you saw him run in the
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Olympics hugely proud obviously very very thr