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Faith Cherotich’s manager, Valentijn Trouw has predicted a bright future for the youngster and has explained some of the qualities she possesses that make her a suitable heir to Beatrice Chepkoech's throne.
Faith Cherotich’s manager, Valentijn Trouw from Global Sports Communication, believes that the youngster’s career is going on the right track and she will surely be the next star.
At 19, Cherotich is the reigning World Under-20 3000m SC champion and she also bagged a bronze medal at the World Championships in Budapest, Hungary.
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“I think she is going to be a future star. She has all the ingredients. It reminds me – we are here with Faith Kipyegon and Faith Cherotich, and Faith Kipyegon 10 or 12 years ago was coming into athletics like Faith Cherotich is coming into athletics now.
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“She is extremely talented. But besides that, she has a good mentality, she is calm and she is composed. She knows what she wants and she is coming in gradually in a very nice way but has the future on her side,” he said as per World Athletics.
Trouw added that Cherotich has incredible opportunities to grow going forward. He explained that, however, last season was tough after she had quite a serious car accident at the beginning of the year.
He explained that she was on her way to Eldoret to take a flight for one of the Diamond Leagues and a truck hit the car and that took her out for about six weeks.
“Everybody survived in a good way but with some injuries. But Faith had to take some rest because she had some minor injuries, including a concussion. We needed to make sure she took it really easy and didn’t start back too quickly.
“Then she had a very short time to come up to the trials and she made the team, and then she had time to build on that and be ready for the World Championships,” he added.
He added that Cherotich handled the situation maturely, and Trouw admitted that he had never seen the teenager panicking.
He lauded her for her calmness and how she can accept life and make the best out of it. He added that she can achieve anything with that attitude and her talent.
“Many times, for us from the outside, if you look at how an athlete is handling those kinds of situations you see also how they are behaving when they are under immense pressure in an Olympic final or going for a record in the Diamond League – it is very telling.
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“Faith stayed extremely calm and accepted advice from the team around her. I think she joined our team two years ago. She was at school and she was showing some great potential in cross country.
“She helped win team silver at the World Cross Country Championships – and she expected a little more, but she did well.
“She is still very young, but you feel there is so much inside that if we go slow she can have a 15- or 20-year career and go a long way,” he added.
Trouw added that it did not surprise him after seeing the youngster secure a senior medal at the World Championships.
“No. It could have happened that she ran fourth, fifth, or sixth and still ran a good race. But to try to go for a medal was realistic. Because after the trials, she still had the time to prepare for the World Championships.
“Some people, you don’t need to tell them what to do in a competition because their intuition is such that they know what to do. And she is somebody who senses extremely well what she can do and what she can’t do.
“And so tactical races – be it fast, be it slow – it doesn’t matter so much for her because she is very much herself and she knows how much fuel is inside to bring it in a good way to the finish line.
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“So far, I have not seen her making any tactical mistakes, where you would say: ‘You should have done this differently’. And that, combined with her strength and talent, means she can do good things in championships,” he added.
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