Athletes race from rags to riches, and back to rags

Some world champions invest millions of shillings in real estate and hospitality industry [File, Standard]

On a flight full of Kenyan athletes returning to Nairobi from Frankfurt, Germany, an exited Ronald Kipchumba Ruto bragged to team mates how he had kissed poverty goodbye.

“Poverty is something we see on TV,” an athlete who was on that flight narrated to the Sunday Standard how Kipchumba was bragging.