For those 20 minutes, he believed he had lost his medal and his time, after his heart broke on national television. After the race, Chelimo said, he waited next to an NBC cameraman and reporter for a couple minutes for a live interview. The whole time, I didn’t know. I didn’t know. “I’m really happy because right now, this is for my soldiers, for my soldiers out there who work really hard.

Source: National Post August 21, 2016 20:26 UTC