OMAHA, Neb. - Losing a shoe at the start of a race is the kind of mishap that would leave some runners too flustered to finish.
But not 7-year-old Talaya Crawford.Talaya, daughter of world champion boxer Terence "Bud" Crawford, has gone viral after video showed her losing her shoe at the start of a race in Omaha, Nebraska, then making an incredible comeback and finishing first.The video first appeared on Twitter May 8 and had 9.6 million views as of Friday.
Terence Crawford shared the video on his Instagram page in a proud papa moment."I just can’t stop thinking about my daughters [sic] track meet yesterday," he said. "She just doesn’t have a clue how much she just motivated me ...
She let it all hang out even when she was hit with adversity."Talaya runs 100- and 200-meter races for the Apollo Track Club of Omaha, according to The Omaha World-Herald.