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    "id": 1043186,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Orengo",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Minority Leader",
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        "legal_name": "Aggrey James Orengo",
        "slug": "james-orengo"
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    "content": "Kipchoge Keino, Amos Biwott and Ben Kogo were there. They made Africa and Kenya in particular a factor in world athletics. I do not know what happened with our athletes for middle and short races particularly the sprints. I think we got a silver medal in Mexico City in one of the relays where we had Daniel Rudisha, Hezekiah Nyamao, Naftali and Charles Asati. I cannot fail to say that sometimes there are people who have special gifts and talent. If you go to football, people from Western and Nyanza tend to do well. When it comes to athletics, people from Nandi and that part of the world do better, just like people from Ethiopia do a lot better. For historical reasons, Brazil and Argentina may be good in football. Where we fail is nursing people. As we make laws, training or taking people to academies--- The Messys would have come from Western. Over a long time, we have had people there with talents. In the sprints, I think we fail our people because we do not have the kind of facilities that makes Jamaica constantly a dominant factor in the short races, particularly the sprints for both men and women. It is both men and women because they have facilities. In passing this Bill, we are simply saying we are part of the world community of athletics and that performance enhancing drugs should not be allowed such as growth hormones, steroids and blood doping. We have got to look at this carefully and make sure that we become part of the responsible nations in the world as far as athletics is concerned. As I said, I must be quick to add that we must always look at these things carefully because we have been offended before. Some of our athletes have been banned. There was a great lady from the US who I thought was one of the most wonderful athletes. I asked Sen. Wetangula but I have just discovered her name. She was called Marion Jones, a super athlete. Sometimes when you do not support your athletes, you may have your records wiped out for reasons which are unexplainable. Despite performing very well in three Olympics, all that went. So, sometimes it may be a way of the first world unfairly treating the second or third world who are fighting to catch up like China and so on. We must do this catching up. The rules sometimes can be used to ensure we do not catch up too quickly with the other people. I hope that this Bill will be passed and that we will then be seen to have complied with the code that would be in place in the year 2021."
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