{"id":4390,"date":"2025-09-07T15:53:49","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T14:53:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/?p=4390"},"modified":"2025-10-09T10:41:20","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T09:41:20","slug":"the-forgotten-champion-solution-of-the-vincent-suter-chemweno-conundrum-part-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/2025\/09\/07\/the-forgotten-champion-solution-of-the-vincent-suter-chemweno-conundrum-part-one\/","title":{"rendered":"The Forgotten Champion \u2013 Solution of the Vincent Suter Chemweno Conundrum (Part One)<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By Satish Sekar \u00a9 Satish Sekar (September 4th<\/sup> 2025)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vincent Suter Chemweno \u2013 Enough is Enough!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Some of the prizes Vincent Suter Chemweno has won<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Recently we highlighted the plight of Vincent Suter Chemweno (see The Forgotten Champion \u2013 The Vincent Suter Chemweno Conundrum<\/strong> at https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/2025\/09\/06\/the-forgotten-champion-the-vincent-suter-chemweno-conundrum\/<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was worse than I had indicated \u2013 far worse. Kenya does not have a National Health Service. Even the elderly and desperately needful cannot get care unless they pay for it regardless of the need. Inability to pay can be a death sentence \u2013 Nigel Farage can keep his health plans nightmare for his friends and supporters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Suter is 89-years-old. He has no way of paying for the medical insurance he needs and nor has his family. They can\u2019t pay either, and they are also affected by caring for him \u2013 it is a full-time commitment, which means employment prospects are bleak. They, and more importantly, Vincent, depends on charity which up to now has been scarce.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You cannot see his plight and not be moved and call yourself human.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When I saw it, I knew something had to be done, and if I didn\u2019t play a part in it, the odds are it would not have been done. I also knew I can\u2019t change the world on my own, or even his situation. Fortunately, Vincent has allies who care about him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Former Athletes Rally to Suter\u2019s Aid<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

At its Converse Meeting of September 1st<\/sup>, the Veteran Athletes Association (VAA) announced the projects that it would pursue in the following year. Kenya\u2019s first Olympic champion in the race that became the signature race of Kenyan athletics, the 3000 metres Steeplechase, Amos Biwott,[1]<\/a> and the great Kipchoge Keino applauded as former Marathon champion, Simon Biwot, announced a project aimed at supporting athletes in need.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Amos Biwott, the Father of Kenyan Steeplechasing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Vincent Suter Chemweno will be the poster-boy of this struggle for compassion. We had visited Suter previously. It had been decided rapidly by the VAA that he had to be helped. Biwot \u2013 a caring champion for the veteran athletes \u2013 announced that care for veteran athletes in need would be a priority of the Association over the next year. It would start with Vincent Suter Chemweno.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> Biwott won the Kenya\u2019s first gold medal in the 3000 metres Steeplechase at M\u00e9xico\u2019s Olympic Games in 1968. The late Benjamin Kojo took the silver medal. Kojo was the first Kenyan to compete in this race at the Olympic Games  four years earlier in Tokyo\u2019s first Olympiad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Satish Sekar \u00a9 Satish Sekar (September 4th 2025) Vincent Suter Chemweno \u2013 Enough is Enough! Recently we highlighted the plight of Vincent Suter Chemweno (see [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4387,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1232,4,1],"tags":[833,1241,1236,1237,1240,1239,1238,1233],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4390"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4390"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4391,"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4390\/revisions\/4391"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}