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Kenya Rugby 7s team head coach Kevin 'Bling' Wambua. [Stafford Ondego, Standard]

Nobody could have believed that the Kenya Sevens rugby team would make it to the 2024 Paris Olympics after they were relegated from the World Rugby Sevens Series last year for the first time in 23 years.

But one man, Kevin 'Bling' Wambua, made the impossible possible as he steered the youthful side to glory, literally killing three birds with one stone.

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