The decline has been very steep for these athletes.
Youtube man (Julius Yego) → Age 29
2011 All Africa games gold
2012: African Championships gold
2014: Commonwealth Games gold
2015: World championship Gold with a throw of 92.72 m
2016 : Olympic silver medal
2018: 6th in the Commonwealth games semi-finals with a throw of 74.5 metres
Tumuti Mucheru (Age 25)
2016: African Championships gold
2016: Olympic silver medal
2018: Failed to qualify for Commonwealth games
Nicholas Bett (Age 28)
2015: World championships gold medal
the mind wanders. for example the athlete wins a total of 150 million, establishes an alternative income of 500k. hiyo mateso ya training anaachana nayo, anazaa, analewa, anaongeza tukilo, maisha inashika. alafu anafika late 20 and thirties and being a star doesnt matter and they go into their comfort zones, maisha inashikaaa.
Number one should have been Pamela Jelimo.She had such a promising career.Won Olympics Gold,won IAAF golden league jackpot alone ($1M) kutoka hapo scandals za sijui bwana sijui ni boyfriend sijui manager!The rest is history!
YEP she says she lost the motivation to work hard. Waking up every morning at 5 am to run 10km na vinginevyo.
Plus I it seems she was emotionally frail and when her husband divorced her, she felt abused and could not motivate herself.
Hapa ndio we need psychologists