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Kenyan athletes make it big in faraway lands

BY PETER NJENGA

Two months before the 1992 Summer Olympics, a forlorn black figure deep in the New Mexico desert, United States, graced the cover of TIME magazine. His name:  Ibrahim Hussein Kipkemboi from Kapsabet, the first Kenyan non-political figure to be featured in the magazine.

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