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Rudisha thought he would never run again

800m Olympic champs speaks from his base in Germany on his injury tribulations.

I am sitting watching Star Trek with David Rudisha. The Enterprise has just been overrun by Klingons and Captain James T Kirk has been taken hostage by one of the perpetrators. Rudisha, it is rarely David, almost always Rudisha that he is known by and to which he answers, slowly turns and says: "I love sci-fi."

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