FILE- In this file photo dated Sunday, Jan. 19, 1997, Zola Budd-Pieterse of South Africa checks her time after she crossed the finish line in the Tokyo City Half Marathon. According to Budd's manager Ray de Vries, on Friday Sept. 26, 2014, the distance runner who gained fame as a barefoot teenage sensation in the 1980s is starting legal proceedings against South Africa athletic authorities for an alleged unfair disqualification in a recent marathon, and the runner is seeking redress through the courts. (AP Photo/Tsugufumi Matsumoto. FILE)