Three years ago, Johanna Benson became the darling and reference point for Namibian sport. She won an Olympic double - a gold medal and a silver on the grandest sporting stage in London, England.
Not since the legendary sprinter Frank Fredericks in his pomp or boxer Harry Simon at his terminating best was there ever such a frenzy over an athlete.
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