The story of Kenyan athlete Julius Yego is truly unusual. Although Kenya has always been considered the land of runners, Julius Yego is not a runner. Julius Yego is a javelin thrower. And not some average one. He came to the Rio Olympics as a favorite. The force came to this title in an unusual way. After being written off by the coaches in high school and realizing he wasn't a good runner, he tried his hand at the javelin. The problem? Where the hell do you get a javelin coach in Kenya and most importantly where do you even get a javelin? Regarding the latter, he has somehow found his way, and he even hired a YouTube channel as a coach! This honed him into one of the best javelin throwers in the world!
Many of us are on YouTube we resort to lessons in guitar, home crafts, cooking and the like. Even the 27-year-old Julius Yego is. But Julius Yego is top athlete. More specifically, a javelin thrower from Kenya, whose athletes are synonymous with middle and long distance running.
They won at the Olympic Games over 80 coins, but so far none in technical disciplines. Yego already corrected this at the World Championships - with a gold medal, and this "infamous" statistic with silver also fixed on IO Rio 2016.
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To your own technical knowledge he broke through on his own or with the help of YouTube, where he is studied throws former two-time Olympic champion Norwegian Andreas Thorkildsen, and Finn Tera Pitkämäki and world record holder Czech Jan Železny. "My coach is YouTube," he repeatedly emphasized, which is why the nickname stuck to him Mr. YouTube man (see clip above).
This took him very far despite the lack of face-to-face advice and support at home. Over Olympic Games in London to a scholarship for training in Finland to the role of favorite in Rio 2016!
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