Josh Kerr will go for gold in the men's Olympic 1500m in Paris. Those three-and-a-half minutes will be the culmination of years of work.
Around Christmas time, Josh Kerr made a special trip to the Stade de France in Paris, home of athletics at this summer's Olympics.
Yet despite his inexorable rise, Kerr could walk down Princes Street in his hometown of Edinburgh and, probably, go largely unnoticed. It was not until the last 400m that they got to their feet as Josh battled to the front, kicked, and strained for gold. "They tried everything, and enjoyed everything. It was very much a case of any sport is better than homework probably," John says.As well as rugby, both boys found a home at Edinburgh Athletics Club.
The fact he was 17 and did not have a stellar academic record meant plenty of rejection until the University of New Mexico said 'yes'.He met Larimar Rodriguez, now his fiancee, in that first week on a campus bus that his parents had blagged on to posing as professors. "He just seemed like a team player and the staff really spoke highly of him as a human being, which is really important," he says of Kerr.
"So he puts a little pressure on me but it makes it really a joy to work with because it feels like you're part of something." The brutal training blocks Kerr goes through at altitude in Albuquerque are now infamously known as 'Fight Camp'. "And just pouring all that mental and physical energy into that key day, almost like a boxer or an MMA fighter."
That sums up much of Kerr's route to the top - focus and discipline while remaining emotionally close to his roots.
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