{"id":7466,"date":"2024-11-29T16:38:23","date_gmt":"2024-11-29T16:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/emmanuel-wanyonyi-olympic-800m-champion-says-looking-after-cattle-was-tough-wanyonyis-rise-to-olympic-champion\/"},"modified":"2024-11-29T16:38:23","modified_gmt":"2024-11-29T16:38:23","slug":"emmanuel-wanyonyi-olympic-800m-champion-says-looking-after-cattle-was-tough-wanyonyis-rise-to-olympic-champion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/emmanuel-wanyonyi-olympic-800m-champion-says-looking-after-cattle-was-tough-wanyonyis-rise-to-olympic-champion\/","title":{"rendered":"Emmanuel Wanyonyi: Olympic 800m champion says ‘looking after cattle was tough’ – Wanyonyi’s rise to Olympic champion"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Growing up in extreme poverty in a small village in western Kenya, Emmanuel Wanyonyi’s daily life was marked by hardships.<\/p>\n

Forced out of school aged 10, he worked long hours herding cattle before forging a career in athletics that saw him top the podium in the 800m at this year’s Paris Olympics.<\/p>\n

BBC Sport Africa went to visit the 20-year-old to find out how he is inspired by family and the unexplained death of his father.<\/p>\n

Video by Kelvin Kimathi, Brian Khisa and Anthony Irungu.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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Growing up in extreme poverty in a small village in western Kenya, Emmanuel Wanyonyi’s daily life was marked by hardships. Forced out of school aged 10, he worked long hours herding cattle before forging a career in athletics that saw him top the podium in the 800m at this year’s Paris Olympics. BBC Sport Africa […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7467,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport-africa","category-world-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7466"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7468,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7466\/revisions\/7468"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}