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From: Eamonn Condon <eamonn@...>
To: Track & Field <t-and-f@...>
Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2000 3:01 AM
Subject: t-and-f: Osoro Ondoro in stable condition


> The Electronic Telegraph
> Tuesday 25 July 2000
>
> Car thieves have shot and wounded a member of Kenya's Olympic marathon team,
> a day after he was selected for the Sydney Games.
> Veteran road racer Osoro Ondoro was driving home on Sunday evening with his
> wife and four-year-old son after attending the national Olympic trials in
> the capital Nairobi when he was attacked and his car stolen.
>
> Hospital officials said Ondoro was in a stable condition with a gunshot
> wound to his neck.
>
> The winner of the Chicago marathon in 1999, Ondoro was selected for the
> three-man Kenyan team on Saturday after the Kenya Amateur Athletic
> Association dropped its original trio, accusing them of complacency and
> failing to train properly.
>
> Also selected were Rotterdam marathon winner Kennedy Cheruiyot and 1996
> Atlanta Olympic Games marathon bronze-medallist Eric Wainaina.
>
> They replaced twice Boston marathon winner Moses Tanui, reigning Boston
> champion Elijah Lagat and Japheth Kosgei, the Tokyo marathon winner.
>
>
> Eamonn Condon
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