Running into love: The romance and tragedy of athlete marriages

Wesley Korir, 2012 Boston Marathon Champion and Member of Parliament for Cherangany with his wife Tarah Korir. (Courtesy)

Many organisations have put a caveat against dating or marrying colleagues. The advice is always that if it happens then one person has to resign.

However, when people spend a lot of time together, romantic love has a way of filtering through the spaces. Elite-level athletes lead disciplined lives where their lives revolve around training and running. Many of them have fallen in love, I mean run into love with their colleagues in the training camps and warming tracks. Love has made many athletes change their citizenship.