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Bernard Koech has come out to explain how former world marathon record holder Eliud Kipchoge saved him from becoming an alcoholic
Bernard Koech was a frequent visitor to the club and he had made alcohol his best friend but former world marathon record holder Eliud Kipchoge rescued him from the dark hole that he was in.
Speaking to NOS, Koech narrated how he would drink anything that was at his disposal and he wants to encourage other athletes to shun away from such vices.
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The current marathon record holder has admitted that at a personal level, he has yet to receive any congratulatory message from Eliud Kipchoge.
He disclosed that Kipchoge was his saviour and he frequently talked to him, thanks to his words of advice, Koech is now a changed man.
"I quickly drank whatever was available. As long as it contained alcohol. Even heavy drinks," Koech said as per NOS.
"I estimate that 90 per cent of Kenyan top athletes regularly drink too much.”
The 35-year-old Kenyan also narrated how Kipchoge, the five-time Berlin Marathon champion saved him from being an alcoholic.
“My great friend Eliud Kipchoge saved me. He spoke to me a number of times and then took care of me," he explained.
"When he made it clear that I was throwing my life away, I knew that I had to make rigorously different choices."
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He narrated that he used to hang out with the wrong company between 2015 and 2020, which set him back. At the time, he was a celebrated marathoner but sinking into depression.
"People who you consider friends, but turn out not to be. People who mislead you and ultimately cause you to throw all your principles overboard," he said.
"For an athlete, discipline is the greatest condition for success. After training, you have to give your body time to recover, so that you can get the best out of yourself the next day.
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"Somewhere at the beginning of 2015, I started doing that. Instead of going to bed after training, I looked for entertainment elsewhere.”
What started with an occasional glass of wine quickly became a habit of consuming alcohol outside the home every weekend. The next step was daily excessive use.
"Another problem was that in Kenya you cannot, for example, order a glass of whiskey in a bar. A bottle is immediately in front of you."
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"At one point I no longer drank in public, but smuggled bottles in during training camps to drink in anonymity."
However, he has since changed his ways and is on a mission to warn other Kenyan athletes against alcohol.
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