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  • Kipchoge And Kosgei Wins Big At Abbott World Marathon Majors Series XII Awards

    Kipchoge And Kosgei Wins Big At Abbott World Marathon Majors Series XII Awards

    Eliud Kipchoge has set the genesis of recognisable athletes and Kenyan marathoners are bagging awards on and off the track since his moon landing INEOS sub 2 marathon in Viena.

    Eliud Kipchoge floored Ethiopian athletes Lelisa Desisa and Birhanu Legese to attain the award after garnering 50 points from the 41 points the Ethiopians garnered.

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    Kipchoge took his joy to Twitter streets and posted this…

    Bridgit Kosgei also accumulated 50 points  showing dust to her fellow female athletes. Kosgei harmered Ethiopia’s Ruti Aga and fellow Kenyan Vivian Cheruiyot. Ethiopia’s Ruti Aga and Kenya’s Cheruiyot finished second and third respectively.

    Eliud Kipchoge and Bridgit Kosgei will pocket Ksh25Million each as the AWMM price money. This comes after the two also bagged the Virgin Money London Marathon last April.

    On her part, Kosgei won the 2018 Bank of America Chicago Marathon last October in 2:18:35 before winning the title again in London in her first series title.

    Before the moon landing sub 2 INEOS challenge, Kipchoge won the BMW Berlin Marathon in September 2018. He set a world record of  2:01:39, which still-standing world record on top of his INEOS Sub 2 marathon challenge.

  • Kevin Mulei’s NRG Radio Complies With Kipchoge’s Demands

    Kevin Mulei’s NRG Radio Complies With Kipchoge’s Demands

    Kevin Mulei’s NRG Radio station has changed it’s name from the Kipchoge radio minutes after the embattled station was served with demand letter by World Marathon Record holder’s Lawyer Donald Kipkorir.

    Last week, Kevin Mulei’s owned station NRG Radio announced that they will be rebranded to Kipchoge Radio for whole of this week.

    “NRG Radio, based in Nairobi which covers two-thirds of Kenya, will change its name to Kipchoge Radio from Monday, in celebration of the world-beating achievement of 1 hour 59 minutes and 40 seconds in the INEOS Challenge held in the weekend,” read the statement in part.

    “As the number one youth radio station in Kenya, we are continuously challenging our young people to achieve their ultimate and there is no better time to remind them that no human is limited than now.” NRG Announced.

    NRG had changed their top line to KipchogeRadio

    Earlier today, Kipchoge, through lawyer Donald B. Kipkorir, demanded that Mulei’s radio pulls down his name, images and references from all its social media and online platforms within two hours. This is after the station rebranded itself to ‘Kipchoge Radio’. This apparently was done without Kipchoge’s knowledge or consent.

    The troubled station has since pulled down Kipchoge’s name and replaced it with Mashujaa radio.

    This move has attracted massive mixed reactions from Kenyans on Twitter and here are sampled tweets of their say on the matter.

    https://twitter.com/joelmuchai/status/1185210327430057984?s=19