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Never-ending battle of North Rift counties to be recognised as home of athletics

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Kenya's Ezekiel Kemboi celebrates winning the final of the men's 3,000 metres steeplechase athletics event at the 2015 IAAF World Championships at the "Bird's Nest" National Stadium in Beijing on August 24, 2015. AFP PHOTO

There has been intense battle between three athletics-rich counties in the North Rift over the ‘home of champions’ tag.

But after fierce political mind games, Elgeyo Marakwet patented the name ‘Home of Champions’ outsmarting Nandi and Uasin Gishu Counties who were claiming it. Uasin Gishu is ‘The Champions’ while Nandi is the ‘Source of Champions’.

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