How fast do things change?

How fast do things change? 25 years ago, if Odessa Swarts had turned on the news in 1991 she would have watched the US troops in Kuwait at the start of the Gulf War. Gorbachev was in power in the USSR, and F.W. de Klerk was President of South Africa under the rule of Apartheid.
Odessa was a sprinter but could not compete Internationally, as the World’s anti-Apartheid measures included banning South African Athletes from competition, including the Olympics.
That was despite her having the 100m...