Azu grew up in a Christian family in Rumney, simply exterior 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 together 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 in the present day.
“In athletics you really want 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 if 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 rationale why it is further particular.”
The Azu household – who moved to Wales from Ghana, by way of the Netherlands – will likely be out in power 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 closing within the males’s 100m.
It’s right here he talked about the quote from Ecclesiastes, which he’s studying lots in the meanwhile.
“It says ‘the quickest runner would not all the time win the race’,” he mentioned. “So something can occur.
“While you set your coronary heart to one thing and actually imagine it, something can undoubtedly occur.”