Two-time Kenyan Olympic champion David Rudisha stated on Monday he was grateful to be alive after surviving a aircraft crash on the weekend in southern Kenya. The 800m world document holder had simply taken off from a Kenyan reserve internet hosting the “Maasai Olympics” — a collection of sporting competitions involving Maasai youth — when his plane encountered bother and was compelled to make an emergency touchdown on Saturday. “It was a scary episode where you hold your heart in your hand as you pray to God,” the athlete, who belongs to the Maasai tribe himself, advised The Nation newspaper.

“The pilot did an incredible job to keep the plane afloat and stable for long. We thank God we all came out alive.”

The 33-year-old is a sponsor of the “Maasai Olympics”, which was established a decade in the past by neighborhood leaders and conservation group Big Life Foundation.

The aim is to assist protect the lion inhabitants and substitute the standard Maasai ceremony of looking the massive cats with sporting contests. “One of the passengers was injured and is being treated at hospital,” the conservation charity stated in an announcement launched late Saturday.

“The others, including Mr. Rudisha, who is the patron of the Maasai Olympics, suffered no significant physical injuries,” it added. Rudisha was concerned in a severe automobile accident in 2019.

He gained Olympic golds in 2012 and 2016, and world titles in 2011 and 2015, setting a world document (1min 40.91sec) within the 2012 London Olympics remaining.

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