The 34-year-old Kenyan once seemed destined for second place—then he started winning. He’ll face his biggest challenge yet in Hopkinton.
coached by Berardelli—marathoner Mathew Kisorio and 800-meter runner Agatha Jeruto—were caught doping, he parted ways with Rosa & Associates. At the time, the company’s director, Federico Rosa, told reporters that while he didn’t believe Berardelli was involved in the cheating, he felt he “was not able to pay enough attention to his own athletes.”
Berardelli concedes that he is demanding. “I want athletes to have the right attitude, the right behavior,” he says. “Evans’s mental strength is upper-level. He believes strongly in himself, and he truly believes he will win.” Wanjiro says she’s never been interviewed by a reporter, and now what is there to say? Still, she wastes no time before launching into a proud retelling of her son’s life and achievements. Evans had his own vegetable garden when he was small. He was highly skilled at guiding oxen to plow the fields. And he always loved to run. “When Evans was young, he was running all the time—up and down through the hills,” she says. “And every time he came home, he was stretching.
Eventually, we wander outside into the yard, passing the two-room house Evans grew up in. Wanjiro still sleeps there—her entire wardrobe hangs from a clothesline by her bed. “It is better for old people to be in an old building,” her son William explains as we get ready to leave. “The walls hold the heat better.”
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