Azu grew up in a Christian family in Rumney, simply outdoors Cardiff. His household lead a weekly service and Azu is closely concerned.
After securing his place on the Olympic Video games on a Saturday night in Manchester, he was again singing in church along with his household in Cardiff on the Sunday morning.
He credit his household for giving him what he must get to the place he’s at the moment.
“In athletics you actually need sure expertise to go far,” he defined to BBC Sport Wales.
“[My family] have instilled self-discipline in me, they’ve instilled humility in me. I believe these two issues can take you actually far in athletics.
“All of us have expertise to run quick however whenever you’re on the road and the stress’s there, it is those you are doing it for. It is the why. And I believe I’ve a stronger why than most individuals of why I need to win.
“Having them behind me is all the explanation why it is additional particular.”
The Azu household – who moved to Wales from Ghana, through the Netherlands – will probably be out in pressure in Paris to cheer him on on the most important stage.
Azu says he’ll arrive on the Video games “quick and wholesome” and he is able to do all he can to succeed in the Olympic last within the males’s 100m.
It’s right here he talked about the quote from Ecclesiastes, which he’s studying rather a lot for the time being.
“It says ‘the quickest runner does not at all times win the race’,” he mentioned. “So something can occur.
“If you set your coronary heart to one thing and actually consider it, something can undoubtedly occur.”
