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Gold medallist Kenya's Julius Kiplangat Yego poses on the podium during the award ceremony for the men's javelin throw athletics event at Hampden Park during the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland on August 2, 2014. AFP PHOTO / ANDREJ ISAKOVIC
A big party has been laid down in Kapsabet to welcome and honour Julius ‘YouTube’ Yego (right), the newly crowned Commonwealth Games javelin champion.
Yego went down into annals of history as the first Kenyan to win a gold medal in field events at the Commonwealth Games.
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