pls give the summary of the amazing story of kipchoge keino. Answer will be definitely marked as brainliest.
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Keino’s father, a long-distance runner, encouraged his son in the sport. Keino herded goats and trained in Kenya’s hill country, which prepared him well for high-altitude competition. He emerged as a leading distance runner during the mid-1960s, setting world records in the 3,000 metres (7 minutes 39.6 seconds) and the 5,000 metres (13 minutes 24.2 seconds).
At the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City, Keino suffered from severe abdominal pains (later attributed to gallbladderproblems). Despite warnings from doctors, he competed in six distance races in eight days. In his first final—the 10,000 metres—the Kenyan’s pain became unbearable, and he collapsed on the infield with just two laps to go. In the 5,000-metre final Keino earned a silver medal, finishing 0.2 second behind Tunisian Mohammed Gammoudi. In the 1,500 metres Keino faced race favourite Jim Ryun of the United States. Despite his pain, Keino, with help from teammate Ben Jipcho, set a furious pace over the length of the race, negating Ryun’s powerful finishing kick. Keino won the race by 20 metres. At the 1972 Games in Munich, West Germany, Keino won a silver medal in the 1,500 metres and a gold medal in the 3,000-metre steeplechase.
Keino and his wife took in more than 100 orphaned children and had seven of their own. His success on the track and his commitment to the welfare of Kenya made him one of the nation’s most-beloved heroes. Later Keino served as president of the National Olympic Committee Kenya. In 2012 he was among the first inductees to the IAAF Hall of Fame.
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Kipchoge Keino, aka Hezekiah Kipchoge Keino or (thankfully in the interest of avoiding typos) just Kip, is a retired athlete who ran for the country of Kenya. Throughout his career, Kip earned almost a dozen medals, half of which were gold, for being an amazing middle to long-distance runner. The story we want to share is the time Kip was almost late for his race and had to (literally) run to get there, then won a gold medal anyway, despite another major adversity in that race, which we’ll get to in a minute.
First, a little info on the man himself, because he’s awesome. We’ll start with his name. Kipchoge is a Nandi expression for something to the effect of “born near the grain storage shed.” If you guessed he came from humble beginnings, you’d be right. Things didn’t get better when both of his parents died when he was very young; he then moved in with his aunt who raised him.
When once asked about his childhood and how he got started running, this was Kip’s response:
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