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she s broken the world record. kenni harrison. reporter: your face in that moment was priceless. yeah. reporter: you were just in disbelief. i just see wr and i thought oh, i did it. oh, my realized it was time body as well as her mind. my mental game was hindering me. reporter: she began working with a sports psychologist and by the start of 2020 she felt like a brand-new athlete and then came the pandemic. what was the hardest part of that for you? keeping the dream alive, you know. reporter: it meant getting creative. finding new spaces to run dodging everyone in sight and even facing her own covid battle. if you finally make it to the olympics, do you think it will make it sweeter in the end for you? yeah, of course. if you re able to put your mindset to be positive and you can do anything. the rest should be pretty easy. reporter: back on track with her long-delayed olympic dream finally coming true. ....
The. casey, bowe, young, cory, jojo, tasha, jacketor, gabby, kip, kyra. does your mom forgot the order? sometimes. the harrisons couldn t help but stand out especially in clayt alabama rolling around in the old shuttle burks the only thing her dad could find to hold them all. took out interior and put in different seats and had a time-out chair in front. reporter: we met kenni before the pandemic took hold. how are you doing? i m good. reporter: this is just a warmup for you? just a warmup. reporter: working hard to make her olympic debut, finally. five years ago kenni walked into the olympic trials the hands down favorite but then came the starting gun. harrison is second. reporter: kenni finished sixth. in just 12.62 seconds her real olympic dreams were suddenly gone. i was kind of like shocked and numbed that i didn t make it. reporter: but it was even more baffling when two weeks later kenni did this. ....