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Tumble into misery as old age catches up with legends

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1968 Olympic 3000m steeplechase champ Amos Biwott and his wife Vivian at their home in Ndonyu Ngaria, Nandi. [Peter Ochieng, Standard]

They laid the athletics marker and paved a golden path for Kenya’s world-beating stars in track and road running.

From the 1958 Commonwealth Games in Cardiff, Wales, they kept on shipping home the bullion from foreign lands.

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