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Kenya s Asbel Kiprop celebrates as he wins the final of the men s 1500 metres athletics event at the 2015 IAAF World Championships at the Bird s Nest National Stadium in Beijing on August 30, 2015. [AFP]
For a man who has the world at his feet, Asbel Kiprop is not your ordinary celebrity.
With an Olympic gold, three world championships titles, Africa title and the third-fastest time in 1,500m in history is no mean feat. He’s simply on the global prism.
And Standard Sports Fools Day prank titled ‘Reprieve for Asbel as AIU withdraws suspension’ set tongues wagging across the global stage.
Pacesetters have always been employed by race organisers for world record attempts with specific instructions for lap times.
They also play a crucial role in avoiding the deception tactics common in competitions as they race away from the start line giving the other runners the impression that they are far behind.
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Pacesetting became prominent after Chris Brasher and Chris Chataway successfully paced Roger Bannister to break the four-minute mile for the first time in 1954.
Andrew Rotich, who has paced several Diamond League meetings and the World Challenge, said the earnings have kept decreasing over the years.
Limo,
Baba Helsinki or 508, as he is fondly referred to, Limo is also a Commonwealth Games medalist, a world cross-country winner and former International Association of Athletics Federations, (now World Athletics), Athletes’ Commission representative
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Kenyans are eager to end the 15-year-old gold drought in men’s 5000m at the 2022 World Athletics Championships in Oregon, USA.
American Bernard Lagat and Ethiopian Kenenisa Bekele denied Eliud Kipchoge gold medals in Osaka and Berlin in 2007 and 2009 respectively, where the Kenyan settled for silver medals. Then came the emergence of Britain’s Mo Farah and now Uganda’s Joshua Cheptegei.