By Stanley Collymore
Absolute congratulations
and also huge sincerest
best wishes all round,
to you Ahmed Hafnaoui on what
are essentially so self-evidently
your outstandingly very adept
swimming skills; deliberately
and undeniably too crucially
and fittingly as well, the full
and distinctively fulsomely
devoted to, committed and
inspirationally engaged in
this vibrant commitment,
which then stongly allied
with your acute personal
endeavours, and distinct
commendably also very
strong unrelenting faith
spurred you to success!
And all this in the wake
of entrenched bigotry
on the part of others;
in your now generally globally
acknowledged ability. So from
me well done! And one in the
eye for FINA, and its racially
enabling ilk that usually do
crucially think, swimming
is unquestionably, and too
exclusively proven a sole
preserve indefinitely, for
basically only the white
man and white woman,
and as such, should be
devoid of participants
that transparently are
not white Caucasians.
(C) Stanley V. Collymore
25 July 2021.
Author's Remarks:
My heartiest congratulations to Ahmed Hafnaoui; and well done to Tunisia: a country where my partner and I have spent many memorable, combined Christmas and New Year holidays, for producing such a truly outstanding swimmer. Allah's eternal blessing and peace be with you all as a nation!
And to our very own and solitary, first Black British swimmer Alice Dearing and other Black swimmers of both genders competing at this Tokyo Olympics, all the very best to each one of you. And prove in the process that racism doesn't rule the waves; not even in the swimming pool.
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