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Why 508 will always be former 5000m world champion Benjamin Limo’s lucky digits

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Former 5,000M World Champion Benjamin Limo during an interview in Eldoret Town [Boniface Okendo, Standard]

It is strange how fortunes turn around. For Benjamin Kipkoech Limo, the world 5000m gold he struck at the 2005 World Athletics Championships in Helsinki, Finland, remains a memorable one – it left a mark in his life.

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