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Article: FAME NOT IN HIS FORTUNES CHERUIYOT DIDN'T TAKE HIS TITLE AND RUN WITH IT
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- April 18, 2004
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He thought that his life would change after he broke the tape in
Copley Square last year. Isn't that what happens to the man who wins
the world's oldest continuous marathon? Wouldn't Robert Kipkoech
Cheruiyot's name go up alongside Ibrahim Hussein's and Cosmas Ndeti's
and Moses Tanui's and the rest of the Kenyans who'd won at Boston?
"There is no change," reports Cheruiyot, who returns to defend his
title at tomorrow's 108th race. He's $80,000 richer, of course, his
payoff for leading four of his countrymen to the finish line. And
he's famous back home, but with a small "f."
His village in the Nandi District gave him a champion's welcome,
he says, but not the government, which long since has ...