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We are behind you, leaders tell Ruto ahead of 2022 elections

The family of former 400M hurdles world champion Nicholas Bett throw in soil at the athlete's grave during the burial ceremony at Simat in Uasin Gishu. [Kevin Tunoi/Standard]

Politics took centre stage as athlete Nicholas Bett was given a hero’s send-off at his Simat village home in Uasin Gishu County yesterday.

The 2015 400m hurdles World Champion died in a road accident in Nandi County last week after the car he was driving veered off the road and landed in a ditch near Lessos along the Eldoret-Kapsabet road.

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