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08-01-2016, 10:09 PM
Runner accurately predicted her 2016 Olympic dreams five years ago
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It's one thing to daydream about being in the Olympics (http://mashable.com/category/olympics/), but it's a**ther to actualize your dreams—and have Twitter proof of it all. *
Morolake Aki**sun (https://twitter.com/MsFastTwitch)did just that when she plotted her future five years ago, tweeting in 2011 (https://t.co/vusyh5G5Y3) that by 2016 she would be graduated from college and headed to the Olympics.
SEE ALSO: Facebook will host exclusive content of 2016 Olympics Games, but it won't live-stream competitions (http://mashable.com/2016/07/28/facebook-olympics-rio/)
Almost five years to the day, the track and field star blessed Twitter with an update.
"I tweeted that five years ago," she wrote. "I graduate from [the University of] Texas in December. I'm going to the Olympics next week." Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/08/01/2016-olympic-prediction/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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It's one thing to daydream about being in the Olympics (http://mashable.com/category/olympics/), but it's a**ther to actualize your dreams—and have Twitter proof of it all. *
Morolake Aki**sun (https://twitter.com/MsFastTwitch)did just that when she plotted her future five years ago, tweeting in 2011 (https://t.co/vusyh5G5Y3) that by 2016 she would be graduated from college and headed to the Olympics.
SEE ALSO: Facebook will host exclusive content of 2016 Olympics Games, but it won't live-stream competitions (http://mashable.com/2016/07/28/facebook-olympics-rio/)
Almost five years to the day, the track and field star blessed Twitter with an update.
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