Olympic 800m champion David Rudisha is finally seeing light at the end of a tunnel that was characterised by a life of partying.
In a sit-down with BBC published on Tuesday, March 10, the celebrated athlete narrated that he slipped into the life which threatened his career after suffering an injury during training in 2017.
While he was nursing the injury, his father, Daniel Matasi Rudisha, who also won a Silver Medal in 1968 for 4x400m relay passed on, in an attempt to deal with the situation, he turned to the bottle for consolation.
"If you saw me one month ago I was a little bit heavier, but now I am losing the weight and the response is pretty good. The routine is back. When you miss out on training and competition for two years it is never easy," he told the media outlet.
"Well, you know, I have never really directly spoken about partying but, you know, just a social life that everybody has the right to enjoy.
"Whenever we have a (athletics) meet, sometimes we go to socialise, to go out for instance. That is a normal life," he continued.
"I never meant anything extreme, because that is not what I do... Sometimes when you have friends, you go out and throw a party and so forth, and that is actually what I meant," he added.
Athletics, however, runs deep in his veins disclosing that returning to training altered his mindset and that he was happy to be back.
"I missed the track and I missed training for the past two years.
"Whenever I am out there and training I feel like I am doing what I really truly love, and I am passionate about it," he continued.
Rudisha also disclosed that he was fortunate to have survived a car crash in August 2019 after his 4x4 vehicle collided head-on with a bus along Kijauri-Keroka Highway in Nyamira County.
"Actually I don't even have words to explain the accident. It was really horrific and scary.
"To come out without a single scratch was just like a miracle. It is not something that happens every day, it was so special and I feel like God still loves me," he stated.
