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While it is impressive that Tecla Chemabwai was the first Kenyan woman to compete in the Olympics, what is more jaw-dropping is that she might have been only 13 years old when she did it.
I discover this when I ask her if she is 71, as some online sources say she is.
“I’m not 71,” she says. “What happened was that at that time in 1968, according to the Constitution, you could not be given a passport if you were under 18. I did not know it at the time but the officials lied.... Otherwise I was born in 1956.”
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