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    "speaker_name": "Eng. Gumbo",
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        "legal_name": "Nicholas Gumbo",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to thank the Assistant Minister for the Statement but unfortunately as a Kenyan, the Statement sounds to me more like a justification of why Sally Pearson won and not Vivian Cheruiyot. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, indulge me just for a moment to tell you the story of these two girls. Sally Pearson is an Australian athlete and she won the 100 metres women’s title at Daegu, South Korea this year. As the Assistant Minister said, Sally Pearson has only run the fourth fastest time in this event. On the other hand, Vivian Cheruiyot, as we know, is a Kenyan athlete. This year alone, as the Assistant Minister has said, she won the world cross country senior women title in Punta Umbria in Spain. She also won double gold medal at 5,000 metres and 10,000 metres at the world athletics championship in Daegu. Most importantly, she has been unbeaten in the IAAF Diamond League meetings the whole of this year and she has also run the world’s fastest time this year in 3,000 metres and 5,000 metres. I want to add that, this event which nominated Sally Pearson to be, according to the IAAF, the world woman athlete of the year, is 100 metres hurdles. It is one of the least glamorous events in any championship. In fact, the only time people got interested in this event was through an American athlete called Gail Devers. Having said that, our view as Kenyans, and in fact, one of our leading newspapers actually predicted her win even before she won and put a whole pull out, we clearly thought that in nominating the woman athlete of the year, it was going to be a procession not a competition. Clearly to us, we were robbed. The question I want to ask the Assistant Minister is: What are we doing? Those things about sensitizing athletic federations, the voting and all that does not mean much to Kenyans. What are we doing to make Kenyan athletes believe that it is still worth participating in these kinds of competitions?"
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