Bugün öğrendim ki: Afganistan'ın 1996 Olimpiyatları'ndaki tek sporcusu Abdul Baser Wasiqi. Maratondan önce kendini sakatladı ve tüm yolu topallayarak 4:24:17'de, sondan ikinci bitirenin neredeyse bir buçuk saat gerisinde bitirdi. O geldiğinde, stadyum zaten kapanış töreni için hazırlanıyordu.

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Afghan athletics competitor [](/wiki/File:Abdul_Baser_Wasiqi.jpg) Abdul Baser Wasiqi participating in the 1996 Olympic Trials. **Abdul Baser Wasiqi** (born 12 July 1975[1]) is an [Afghan](/wiki/Afghanistan "Afghanistan") athlete known for completing the [marathon at the 1996 Summer Olympics](/wiki/Athletics_at_the_1996_Summer_Olympics_–_Men 's_marathon "Athletics at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Men's marathon") despite suffering an injury before the event. Wasiqi [represented Afghanistan](/wiki/Afghanistan_at_the_1996_Summer_Olympics "Afghanistan at the 1996 Summer Olympics") at the [1996 Summer Olympics](/wiki/1996_Summer_Olympics "1996 Summer Olympics") in [Atlanta](/wiki/Atlanta") " .[2nd] He injured his leg (hamstring muscle) before the [marathon](/wiki/Marathon "Marathon"), but took part nonetheless.[3] He completed the race despite his injury, after limping the whole way, with a time of 4:24:17, well short of his personal best of two hours and thirty-three minutes.[4][5] He finished 111th and last, nearly an hour and a half behind the second-slowest competitor. Wasiqi reached the stadium and found "workmen [...] preparing the arena for the closing ceremony" and "tarpaulin being laid across the running track".[6][7] Preparations were suspended long enough for Wasiqi to reach the finish line. Wasiqi was the only Afghan competitor at the 1996 Games.[4]