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The family of former 400M hurdles world champion Nicholas Bett throw in soil at the athlete's grave during the burial ceremony at Simat in Uasin Gishu. [Kevin Tunoi/Standard]

Politics took centre stage as athlete Nicholas Bett was given a hero’s send-off at his Simat village home in Uasin Gishu County yesterday.

The 2015 400m hurdles World Champion died in a road accident in Nandi County last week after the car he was driving veered off the road and landed in a ditch near Lessos along the Eldoret-Kapsabet road.

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