Its has been said time and again that money cannot buy happiness. Apparently the more money that Kenyan athletes make the distant they get to their spouses. If the previous article carried on the Standard is anything to go by, money is silently ruining the marriage life of most of athletes.
The following article was adopted from the Standard.
The huge athletics dollar payout in races abroad aptly obeys the social maxim: more money more problems.
This precisely paints the picture on the lifestyles that some Kenyan world beating athletes lead after they win
millions from lucrative competitions.
Although some may have been married before the athletics cash start rolling in, break-ups stand out as a common norm among most of them. Upon winning millions, women superstars hatch plans to leave their “poor husbands” and vice versa. These developments play out strangely, often resulting in separations or protracted court battles.
This has been the trend in most athletic families in Kenya.
The twists range from middle distance runners to marathoners whose case files keep gathering dust in court cabinets.
Pamela Jelimo, the 2008 Olympic 800m champion and Golden League jackpot winner of $1 million (Sh86.8 million), set the
ball rolling when she arraigned her lover Peter Kiprotich Murrey in a battle over a Massey Ferguson tractor.
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