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Ben Jipcho when he finished second in the 1972 Olympic games. [INSET:] Ben while in hospital.
Athletic legend Ben Jipcho died last week, a pauper, just like many other retired sports heroes in Kenya. His death at 77 got me wondering about what should be done to stop all these embarrassments of legends dying poor and forgotten.
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