My story began two years before the Paris Olympics. I wasn't even ranked among the world's top 200.
So I used AI to find a road nobody else was taking.
Iten
The day after my graduation, I booked a plane ticket to Kenya.

To train with the best runners in the world.
The edge
However, training hard wasn't enough. I needed an edge.
The algorithm
I built an AI algorithm with ChatGPT
ChatGPT wrote:
def scrape_world_ranking(rank_date: str, session: requests.Session | None = None) -> pd.DataFrame:
client = session or requests.Session()
response = client.get(
_ranking_url(rank_date),
headers={"User-Agent": USER_AGENT},
timeout=REQUEST_TIMEOUT,
)
response.raise_for_status()
soup = BeautifulSoup(response.text, "html.parser")
table = soup.select_one("table")
if table is None:
raise ValueError(
f"No ranking table found for {rank_date}; the site may now render it with JavaScript."
)
headers = [_clean_text(th.get_text(" ", strip=True)) for th in table.select("thead th")]
rows: list[dict[str, object]] = []
for row in table.select("tbody tr"):
cells = row.find_all("td")
if not cells:
continue
values = [_clean_text(cell.get_text(" ", strip=True)) for cell in cells]
athlete_id = row.get("data-id", "")
record: dict[str, object] = {
"Ranking": values[0] if len(values) > 0 else "",
"Name": values[1] if len(values) > 1 else "",
"Birth": values[2] if len(values) > 2 else "",
"Country": values[3] if len(values) > 3 else "",
"Ranking Pts": values[4] if len(values) > 4 else "",
"Type of Event": values[5] if len(values) > 5 else "",
"Athlete ID": athlete_id,
"Date Ranking": rank_date,
}
if headers:
for index, header in enumerate(headers):
if header and index < len(values):
record.setdefault(header, values[index])
rows.append(record)
result = pd.DataFrame(rows)
if not result.empty:
result["Ranking"] = pd.to_numeric(result["Ranking"], errors="coerce")
result["Ranking Pts"] = pd.to_numeric(result["Ranking Pts"], errors="coerce")
return result
The world ranking
The result: Olympic qualification after a historic rise in the world rankings.
The final

Hey mom, made it.
Dare to dream big.


















