What makes our athletes shy away from the Press? Is it because they don’t know their subject well enough to discuss with their interlocutors? No.Is it because they are a hostile people who wouldn’t welcome strangers in their world? No.
Are they arrogant people? Certainly no. Indeed, there are pretty good Press-friendly athletes in out lot who are at home in pre and post-race conferences. Many of them are, however, mature athletes who are more exposed and have dealt with the media on many occasions.
Reports from Berlin where the 12th World Championships were held last month said some of our athletes declined interviews with reporters. They could not even talk to our own reporters who were in the German city to file reports on the performance of our runners.
Now, that is not good news to our readers. I was particularly keen to read what might have befallen my own hero Brimin Kipruto, a likeable young man whose steady progress I have had the privilege of watching since bursting on the national and international scene as a student in 2004 when he took Olympic silver medal in Athens Olympics.
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