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Botswana’s Olympic champion seeks high altitude training in Kenya
Nairobi: The 2012 Olympic 800m silver medallist Nijel Amos from Botswana has relocated to Kenya in a bid to rejuvenate his career. Amos is not the first top flight athlete to opt for high altitude training. Britain’s Mo Farah and American and Chinese athletes have always come to Eldoret in northwest Kenya to train in high altitude and hope to boost their fitness ahead of major championships.
With the focus in 2017 on London World Championships, Amos hopes to strike better form and take the challenge to his rival and Olympic and World Champion David Rudisha.”I feel I have made a good decision to come to Kenya to train. The athletes here are dedicated. This has enabled me to fully concentrate on what brought me here,” he said on Tuesday.
Amos is currently based at the Rosa and Associate training camp alongside the likes of world 1500m champion Asbel Kiprop. Amos has said he has increased his weekly mileage in Kaptagat and he also plans to travel out to Oregon ahead of the World Championships to focus on speed work.
The left-handed batsman from Haryana is garnering praise from all quarters for the way he’s finishing games regularly in the most exciting IPL season.
Gavaskar reckons Tewatia’s whirlwind knock in Sharjah (in IPL 2020) where he smashed West Indies pacer Sheldon Cottrell for five sixes in an over, gave him the confidence that he belongs to the big stage.
Speaking on Cricket Live on Star Sports, Gavaskar said, “That assault on Sheldon Cottrell in Sharjah gave him the belief to do the impossible and the confidence that he belongs here. We saw the impossible (he did with the bat) the other day as well. There’s no twitching or touching the pads (which shows a batter’s nervousness) when he bats in the death overs. He just waits for the ball to be delivered and plays his shots. He’s got all the shots in the book, but most importantly his temperament to stay cool in a crisis is brilliant.”
Gavaskar has also nicknamed the 28-year-old cricketer the ‘ice-man’ and lauded Tewatia’s ability to remain unruffled during the tense moments.
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