‘Rested’ Van Niekerk back with even loftier ambitions, by simxabanisa
that gave Wayde van Niekerk a year and a half breather from the relentless treadmill that is the business end of track and field athletics.two-time world 400m champion and world 400m record holder made a tentative step back into the limelight this week with a media appearance tocelebrity touch rugby game in 2017.
“You don’t want breaks like this, you’d rather just take a month off and get back into it,” he said this week. “I guess it had its positives in terms of a break for myself because I feel more motivated than ever before. I assume that this injury played a massive role in it.” In this day of ubiquitous social media, news of his comeback filtered out at the weekend through a leaked YouTube video of a 400m training race he ran and won in 47.28 seconds in Bloemfontein – this after literally jogging for the first 200m.
“You’re going to have to miss me in that area [the 100m and 200m],” said Van Niekerk. “I haven’t had any thoughts of doing that, but if the times come [in the 400m], I guess the opportunities will come.This would make Van Niekerk, whose world record is 43.03 seconds, the first man to dip under 43 for the 400m.
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