This is part two in JRN's four-part series of interviews with the key people in Samuel Wanjiru's life in Japan. Click here for the introduction to the series, an explanation of how it came about, and links to the other interviews. Check back tomorrow for part three, an interview with Wanjiru's former teammates Yu Mitsuya and Masato Imai.
Barcelona Olympics marathon silver medalist Koichi Morishita is the man who showed Samuel Wanjiru how to be a marathoner, but under his coaching Wanjiru also set all of his world records from the junior 10000 m record to his three times cracking the best-ever half-marathon mark. Six weeks after Wanjiru's death Morishita agreed to a one-on-one interview about Wanjiru's years with the Toyota Kyushu corporate team, their coach-athlete relationship, and his post-Japan marathon career. Morishita was candid and unexpectedly introspective in his opinions of what went wrong, including his own mistakes. In this interview he shared thing…
Barcelona Olympics marathon silver medalist Koichi Morishita is the man who showed Samuel Wanjiru how to be a marathoner, but under his coaching Wanjiru also set all of his world records from the junior 10000 m record to his three times cracking the best-ever half-marathon mark. Six weeks after Wanjiru's death Morishita agreed to a one-on-one interview about Wanjiru's years with the Toyota Kyushu corporate team, their coach-athlete relationship, and his post-Japan marathon career. Morishita was candid and unexpectedly introspective in his opinions of what went wrong, including his own mistakes. In this interview he shared thing…