Boston Marathon king and his new race to win and convert your souls

Former Boston marathon winner Cosmas Ndeti at his Christ Deliverance and Destiny Chapel in Kitengela. He was the first Kenyan to be banned for doping, but rose to jog with the Clintons. [Jenipher Wachie, Standard]

As Cosmas Ndeti lunged forward to the finishing tape at the Boston Marathon in 1993 to pull off one of the biggest shockers in athletics, the announcers were dumbfounded.

“He came from nowhere, he just came steamrolling from nowhere,” they yelled in utter disbelief about a man who had just turned the tables on the favourites.