Rising up in endmost poverty in a tiny village in western Kenya, Emmanuel Wanyonyi’s day-to-day time used to be marked by means of hardships.

Pressured out of faculty elderly 10, he labored lengthy hours herding livestock prior to forging a occupation in athletics that noticed him manage the rostrum within the 800m at this 12 months’s Paris Olympics.

BBC Recreation Africa going to seek advice from the 20-year-old to learn the way he’s impressed by means of community and the unexplained loss of life of his father.

Video by means of Kelvin Kimathi, Brian Khisa and Anthony Irungu.