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Ezekiel Kemboi to resume as President Uhuru's escort after retiring

Athletics - Men's 3000m Steeplechase Final 2016 Rio Olympics - Athletics - Final - Men's 3000m Steeplechase Final - Olympic Stadium - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - 17/08/2016. Third placed Ezekiel Kemboi (KEN) of Kenya and first placed Conseslus Kipruto (KEN) of Kenya celebrate. REUTERS

As an African adage goes, no bull bellows twice in a season — and that is what Ezekiel Kemboi, the father of Water and Barriers track race, did yesterday at the Rio Olympics.

The star steeplechaser, who has embodied the race that has been dubbed “Made in Kenya for Kenyans”, slowed down and settled for a bronze even though he was the favourite to take the gold as he did in London four years ago and in Athens in 2004, when he first shot to prominence.

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