Britton defied the odds in qualifying for Pan Am Games

Shemar Britton

The image will be forever indelibly printed in the memory of those who saw it as Shemar Britton let out a guttural roar and sank to his knees.

The reason.

He had just qualified for the Pan American Games, which in itself is a qualifier for the Olympic Games.

But it was not just that Britton had defied the odds and his opponents to book his ticket on the plane to Santiago, Chile, later this year, it was the manner in which he accomplished the feat.