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Wycliffe Kinyamal of Kenya reacts after winning in the men's 800m event of the IAAF Diamond League Shanghai athletics competition, in Shanghai on May 12, 2018. [AFP PHOTO / Johannes]

Things don’t just happen. They are made to happen. And that’s what Wycliffe Kinyamal, the Commonwealth Games 800m champion, longs to achieve.

Kinyamal, who is also the Africa junior 800m bronze medalist, wants to fit into the shoes of world 800m record holder David Rudisha and perhaps ensure the two-lap race dominance remains in his rural home in Poroko Village in Transmara County.

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