Honour Bett with a sprinters camp

The late Nicholas Bett.

As the sports fraternity bid farewell to former world 400m hurdles champion Nicholas Bett in his home at Simat, Uasin Gishu County, there were passionate calls for Athletics Kenya (AK) to set up a camp to support sprinters and hurdlers.

Before he died in a road accident last week, Bett had urged Sports Cabinet Secretary Rashid Echesa to help set up a training camp for hurdlers like him and sprinters to nurture talent. Bett clinched a gold medal at the World Championships in 2015 in Beijing, China just from his raw talent, but he felt there is need to groom more youngsters who can also take the world by storm.