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Kip Keino, Tergat mourn athletics legend Chumo

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Former athlete Wilson Kiprugut Chumo. [Peter Ochieng, Standard]

One evening in October last year, just weeks after the Tokyo Olympics, a feeble Wilson Kiprugut Chumo, who died on Tuesday night, walked into a National Olympic Committee of Kenya (NOC-K) Awards Gala at the Eka Hotel, in Eldoret.

With the support of a walking stick and two grandsons, Chumo stole the show.

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