The day started normally. Kacper Przybylko played in a youth match for his local team in the small german town of Bielefeld. He gave the team everything, and returned home to collapse on the couch. “I was so exhausted,” he remembers. “My mother said, ‘Hey, let’s watch your older brother (Mateusz). He’s doing track and field right now,’ so I said, ‘Okay, I can just sit in the stands watching him.’”
Wrong. “Suddenly, my coach from track and field came to me and said, ‘Hey, do you still have some power to do some running? We need someone to do the 800 meters.