David Rudisha ready to perform well at the Samsung Diamond League – Athletics news
If one is a formidable runner as David Rudisha, the middle distance runner from Kenya, he is bound to depict an inspiring confidence no matter how big is the challenge which he faces.
Perhaps, this was the reason that undeterred by the big challenge he is set to encounter in Monte-Carlo, the 800m world record holder said that he has loads of motivation to win the Herculis 2011 meet, which is the tenth stop of the 14-leg Samsung Diamond
League.
Rudisha, who flaunts the world best time of one minute and 41.01 seconds for his specialised distance, also has the privilege of clocking four of the ten fastest finishes for an 800m challenge.
This is perhaps because of his world acknowledged potential and acumen for athletics, that at a time when his rivals in the same hotel were lost in planning about the run, he found the nerve to address media personnel and send some strong messages to those
who dared competing the 22-year-old Kenyan.
Though for knowing his game well, Rudisha has always been confident, but the major reason amid which he was capable of starring his opponents right in the eye, was that he had experienced the apex of his form in the previous week. Last Sunday, he clocked
a marvellous one minute and 43.76 seconds performance, which not only secured him the title of the event, but also carved a place for him in the contingent for the IAAF World Athletics Championships in Daegu.
At the hotel, though the point of discussion was his expected performance in the meet, journalists were rather more eager towards discussing his bad experience at the global tournament of 2009, where he missed the finals. Kicking-off with his conversation
and dwelling upon the reasons that forced him to not to emerge as a finalist in the event, Rudisha said, “No, there was nothing I could have done, the weather was the reason (for non-qualification) and some things you can’t control.”
Continuing with his conversation, the strenuous young runner, who broke the world record twice, last year, further added, “An hour before (the semi-final) it started raining heavily and so we didn’t have a good warm-up for the race. Rain delayed the start
a little and that affected me. It was really cold out there.”
However, the world record holder was courageous enough to admit that the Berlin mishap made him more motivated and intrigued him to work harder to carve out his place among the top performers of the world. He was of the view that the current form and potential
for which he is known around the world had not been acquired in a day. Rather, he had been toiling for it since 2009 and building on his form bit by bit, he is now capable of looking at what he is today.
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